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it__ like the British in Ireland in 1916_ , says Oisir O__owd. __he repeated the ageless macho mantra, __orce is the only thing these natives understand,_ so often that they ended up believing it . From that point they were doomed.
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it__ like the British in Ireland in 1916_ , says Oisir O__owd. __he repeated the ageless macho mantra, __orce is the only thing these natives understand,_ so often that they ended up believing it . From that point they were doomed.

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