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** TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2020
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A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behaviour, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If at the end of a war story you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie.
– Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried ([link removed]) [1990]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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February 18, 2020
Has the Constitution Failed? ([link removed])
Given the massive welfare-warfare state system under which Americans live, the natural assumption is that the Constitution failed in its mission to constrain the powers of the federal government. Actually, though, that isn’t the case. How, then, can these two points be reconciled? How can the Constitution be said to be have succeeded in its mission given that, at the same time, we now live under ...
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Strategic Culture Foundation
AFGHANISTAN
Afghan Troops Say Taliban Are Brothers and War Is ‘Not Really Our Fight’ ([link removed])
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Yalta and the Death of the ‘Good War’ ([link removed])
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Trump’s Budget: More Warfare, Slightly Less Welfare ([link removed])
by Ron Paul
Ron Paul Institute
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