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• Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq - mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography,…
• Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because…
• Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa,…
• For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to…
• It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost…
• Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.
• Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all…
• The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about the way…
• The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it…
• I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political…
• Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant…
• In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for…

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