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The War We Can't Win

August 14, 2009

Afghanistan & the Limits of American Power
by Andrew J. Bacevich

The entire article, published in Commonweal (August 14, 2009) can be read here:

http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3?id_article=2609

Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of history and international relations at Boston University and the author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism.

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United Colors of Democracy

August 01, 2009

Ted Galen Carpenter explains why Americans see Thomas Jefferson in every would-be revolutionary around the world.

The article appears in the September 2009 issue of The American Conservative, and can be read in its entirety here:

http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/sep/01/00006/

Ted Galen Carpenter, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, is the author of eight books on international affairs, including Smart Power: Toward a Prudent Foreign Policy for America.

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