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Wednesday, August 8, 2007 12:00 AM

The foreign policy community

America's bipartisan foreign policy orthodoxies and their scholar-guardians are in desperate need of challenge.

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  • Sunday, August 12, 2007 07:47 AM

    How to end the war

    Wanna end the war?

    Let's play let's pretend

    Let's pretend first that Damascus is Hiroshima

    Le't pretend that Tehran, given than any of the Mullahs are still around after Damascus, is Nagasaki.

    Presto end of war.

    Wassa the problem?

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