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What has gone wrong is not that the war in Afghanistan was not won but rather that America took too long to defeat itself in an unwinnable war
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The Conversation
By Thomas Craemer, University of Connecticut
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The Conversation
The good leader, insisted Machiavelli, is morally right to do what is usually taken as wrong. He or she must be cruel, deceptive and often violent
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We must relentlessly continue to ‘fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness’. Tough call, but there is
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Politics
Should the political parties not cut the dead wood soon, the backlash of the people at the next polls could be even more devastating than at the December
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World Affairs
In the 2-minute speech that American President Abraham Lincoln pronounced at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863, when he was consecrating the battlefield which was the scene of excruciating
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Society
It’s just over a year since I decided to take leave of stuffy officialdom, and I mean stuffy because there is only so much time of your life
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