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    <body><![CDATA[Intriguing concept here: that the US can (and maybe should) export security: one of our unique abilities as a state.  It was written either just before, or in the early stages of, the Iraq War, so it does not address directly the justifications for that conflict.  I think it needs to be read in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10129223">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Aside from being one of the most unjustifiably arrogant men who has ever lived, barnett is one of the most dangerous because moderately intelligent military officers everywhere think that he is a god.  I listened to him speak.  Wanted to throttle him.  His book is filled with huge sweeping generaliz...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19933373">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an excellent book that everyone needs to read to understand ther is a future that is worth creating and one for which America must play the lead roll.  This book will put all the news into context for each of us and why things are happening.<br/><br/>You should also read Tomas Barnetts's n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20544799">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An oversimplified view of the problems that beset the world, carried to the point of absurdity. And I thought Stephenie Meyer was vacuous. Anyone else bothered by the title?]]></body>
    
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