>>>Between the Benghazi attack on 9/11/2012 and the presidential election roughly 2 months later, Obama referenced Al Q as being “decimated,” “on the path to defeat” or some other variation at least 32 times
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>>FWIW the literal meaning of "decimate" means to reduce by 10%, i.e. to 90% of its former strength. The practice began with Roman armies.
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>>Many people wrongly think that to "decimate" means to reduce to 10% of original strength.
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>Interesting. It makes perfect sense once you hear the definition but I didn't know the origin of the word.

Therefore, decimating 32 times is a reduction to 3,434% of the initial strength.