| President Wilson entered World War I to
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| | neighbors.Instead, the greatest
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| make the world "Safe for democracy." The
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| | superpower in the world shunned continued
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| rise of the Fascists and World War II
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| | diplomacy and invaded. The same dream of
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| shattered his dream and the hopes of
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| | creating peace and democracy was
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| civilization that cataclysmic upheavals
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| | verbalized at every opportunity. The
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| could be forever avoided. The long Cold
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| | lessons of unrestrained aggression and
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| War created a perilous world where major
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| | ignoring ethnic/religious diversity,
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| powers jockeyed for control with the
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| | first learned centuries ago in ill-fated
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| threat of weapons that could destroy
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| | crusades, were ignored. When you know
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| every living thing on earth. The fear of
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| | you're right, it's hard to concede that
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| communism exerting a domino effect on
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| | everyone else isn't wrong.What have we
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| small poverty-stricken countries led to
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| | created -- a more unstable, troubled, and
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| the quagmire of Vietnam and the
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| | violence-prone world; an earth that
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| embarrassment of the Contra affair.With
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| | shudders at the armed convulsions racing
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| the demise of the Soviet Union, the world
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| | across its brittle, fragile surface. As
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| breathed easier, believing that, at last,
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| | new fires flare across the entire Middle
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| human efforts could concentrate on
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| | East, we hear rumors that an attack on
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| growth, space exploration, and scientific
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| | Iran is in the planning stages. From the
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| advance, rather than pressuring its
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| | world's model of a democracy forged out
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| greatest minds into developing new means
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| | of the wilderness and renowned for its
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| of destruction.Throughout history, there
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| | desire for peace, prosperity, and
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| have always been regional conflicts,
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| | humanity, we have become the hated face
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| ethnic discord, and religious clashes.
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| | of the enemy, an imperialistic throwback
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| The super powers of each era have
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| | to the 19th Century. We have become the
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| eventually stepped in and calmed the
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| | all-powerful but hated Rome of the
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| storms through diplomacy, cultural
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| | ancient world.Despite its grandeur, Rome
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| pressure, or an armed presence.Iraq was
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| | fell. Not to another superpower, but to
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| undoubtedly a crude, cruel, despotic
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| | the ceaseless raids of uncivilized
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| regime under Saddam, killing its own
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| | savages who used their own brand of
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| citizens, brutalizing and maltreating its
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| | violence to defeat a culture that knew
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| minorities, and rattling defiant sabers
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| | only violence to maintain itself and made
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| at a world that failed to grant it the
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| | no effort towards exploring peaceful
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| dignity and respect it felt it deserved.
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| | options.Are we doomed to repeat the
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| Its value to the world defined primarily
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| | past?Virginia Bola is a licensed clinical
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| by the black gold pooled beneath its
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| | psychologist with deep interests in
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| deserts, it was one more unsettled region
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| | Social Psychology and politics. She has
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| like Rwanda, Liberia, or Somalia. It
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| | performed therapeutic services for more
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| demanded the same kind of response:
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| | than 20 years and has studied the effects
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| unwavering political efforts to assert
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| | of cultural forces and employment on the
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| human rights, economic pressure from the
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| | individual.
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| world community and condemnation from its
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