Tag / world war
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Apologia Americana
What is America’s role in the world? We are committed to defend a quarter of the world’s population. We have bases in over seventy countries. The institutions we helped found after World War II, from the World Bank to NATO, are still operating and healthy. Yet we are more divided than ever, a polarization that…
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License to Destroy
BY SONYA SCHOENBERGER In 1863, President Lincoln’s critics denounced the Emancipation Proclamation as a barbaric violation of the laws of civilized warfare. By emancipating slaves behind Confederate lines, they argued, the Union had utterly dispensed with the restraints of enlightened military conduct. Northerners and Southerners alike viewed the proclamation as nothing more than the incitement…
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