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The Promise of a Courageous Al-Jazeera America May Be Fading

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How Not to Reconstruct Iraq, Afghanistan—or America

By Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch —

Why has the United States spent so much money and time so disastrously trying to rebuild occupied nations abroad, while allowing its own infrastructure to crumble untended? Why do we even think of that as “policy”?

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The Afghan Syndrome

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —

Take off your hat. Taps is playing. Almost four decades late, the Vietnam War and its postwar spawn, the Vietnam Syndrome, are finally heading for their American grave.