A nation must think before it acts.
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America’s Imperial Burden: Is the Past Prologue? By Ernest Lefever. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999).
War and the Illiberal Conscience. By Christopher Coker. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998).