And you could make the case that Goure is missing the point: the Shi Lang and its potential siblings aren't being built to fight the U. S. Navy, at least not yet.

然后你可以就笔者忽略的重点提出以下理由：施琅号和它的兄弟舰船并不是为了对付美国海军而建造的，至少目前没有。

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If we go through it will be brilliant, if not at least we will have put up a good fight.

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Yet, even in these bastions, there are at least some signs that the diehards are losing stomach for a fight that it is not in their interests to win.

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In these circumstances, if al-Nusra continues to fight effectively against al-Assad, Syrians are not, at least for the moment, likely to care too much about what the group's broader ideological leanings are.

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