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Having failed to foresee the war, Kissinger [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 25 Oct 2022, 08:10
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Having failed to foresee the war, Kissinger persuaded himself that the Israel Defence Forces would ______ the Arab armies back within two days. Wrong again.


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Originally posted by kaizouku321 on 25 Oct 2022, 05:04.
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Re: Having failed to foresee the war, Kissinger [#permalink] New post   25 Oct 2022, 08:12
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What is the source of this question ? please
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Re: Having failed to foresee the war, Kissinger [#permalink] New post   25 Oct 2022, 09:39
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Re: Having failed to foresee the war, Kissinger [#permalink] New post   25 Oct 2022, 10:06
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here https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n20 ... -ye-smilin

yes but I have hard time to figure out what the sentence is testing ?

A shift in the argument,
A concession
A conditional sentence
A parallelism

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