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The future that was.
From: Foreign Policy
Date: 20040701
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Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books," mused 19th-century British historian Thomas Carlyle. Chances are, future historians will spill plenty of ink over U.S. President George W. Bush and the continued conflict in Iraq. But, as this issue of FOREIGN POLICY reveals, the history lessons should begin today--for Bush and his critics alike.
The United States invaded a foreign land to bestow democracy, recounts the Carnegie Endowment's John B. Judis, only to face a bloody insurrection. But Judis isn't merely describing Iraq; he is chronicling past U.S. ...
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