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Originally Posted by Solecismic
I'd add that someone needs to advise Obama that the word "decimate" does not mean what he thinks it means. We do not want to simply decimate Al Qaeda's leadership. He needs to go quite a bit further if this is to have any significance, and I think he has.
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Usage of decimate is not limited to the original reduce by one tenth, it can also be used to mean destroying any large portion of a group.