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T D's avatar

Wonderful piece, and I Love the tongue in cheek. By the way, Madeleine Albright wrote extensively about war in her wonderful book, “The Mighty and the Almighty.” She held that war was never more internecine than when fought for “holy” reasons.

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Denise Elaine Heap's avatar

Albright would have liked Thoma's "second grader" - this little essay reminds me a great deal of the daisy commercial during the Vietnam war. (1964)

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