Paul Pillar at Georgetown University says if it is not war, then the Obama administration needs to spell out the exact nature of the struggle.

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It's an hypothesis about something, the exact nature of which one needn't necessarily have in view.

它是关于某种事物的假说，由于人们思想的局限性。

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