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My Second Epiphany Came As An Intern At The Carnegie Endowment For International Peace. The Man I Worked For Was Consumed With What Was Going On In Bosnia. And The More I Knew [about It] The More Saddened I Was. There Were These Images Of Emaciated Men Behind Barbed Wire.... It Was Like, I've Got To Find A Way To Do Something.

As Even A Democracy Like The United States Has Shown, Waging War Can Benefit A Leader In Several Ways: It Can Rally Citizens Around The Flag, It Can Distract Them From Bleak Economic Times, And It Can Enrich A Country's Elites.

Over The Years, Western Governments Have Been Criticized For Working With Foreign Police Who Have Proved Abusive Or Corrupt.

President Reagan, Of Course, Did More Than Any Other Person To Entrench The Republican Reputation For Toughness On National Security.

The Story Of U.s. Policy During The Genocide In Rwanda Is Not A Story Of Willful Complicity With Evil. U.s. Officials Did Not Sit Around And Conspire To Allow Genocide To Happen.