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      Michael J. Totten
    2. 1948, Israel, and the Palestinians—
      The True Story

      Efraim Karsh
      May 2008
    3. When Jihad Came to America
      Andrew C. McCarthy
      March 2008
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      Efraim Karsh
    5. Obama's War
      Peter Wehner
      April 2008

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In late August, an American President spoke forthrightly for the first time about what happened when the United States abandoned its commitments to two sovereign nations in Indochina, South Vietnam and Cambodia, and allowed them to be overrun by Communist forces. The President’s remarks, which were intended to heighten public awareness of what might happen if we repeated the same mistake in Iraq, occupied barely three paragraphs in a 45-minute speech.


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Arthur Herman, who has taught history at George Mason University and Georgetown University, is the author of The Idea of Decline in Western History and To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World, among other books. His essay, “Getting Serious About Iran: A Military Option,” appeared in the November 2006 COMMENTARY.

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