Some people argue that a short and decisive battle for supremacy would in the end cause less suffering than the protracted one now raging under America's nose.
有些人认为，与其让这些冲突天天在美军鼻子底下持续上演，不如干脆速战速决，一场大决战后彼此都少受苦。
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They have had a very short time to actually prepare for it. So it's hard to tell what the tendencies, how it would have been if they had had a few months 'chance to actually get the battle going.