BEFORE THE FALL
by David M. Kennedy, teaches history at Stanford University, won a Pulitzer Prize

The Bush administration's path to war in Iraq is but the most dramatic example of a set of policies that has put at risk the kind of international leadership that has served both America and the world so well for the past half-century. The policies of the past four years have made America and the world less safe, not more. America must remember its history before the work of generations is irretrievably lost -- and before still more terrorists are envenomed to strike against us. Even more urgently than in 1914, it's time to ask again: ``What are we going to do with the influence and power of this great nation?''

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