Invariably, they mistake the two big cannon on its lawn for relics of the Revolution or perhaps the Civil War bits of history one associates with Vermont.

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John Allen, they can strengthen Afghanistan enough mainly by building up the indigenous security forces to prevent a Taliban takeover or a ruinous civil war even after U.S. forces finally start drawing down.

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Why then not also evade the document when it comes to waging war or treating civil liberties?

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Nobody would argue that the trial was strictly fair she was convicted of conspiring to cause civil war or that she deserved execution.

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There is a risk, say some observers, that Mr Putin will look for enemies outside the country or launch a war against liberal-minded civil society.

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The Civil War confronted Americans with an enormous task, one quite different from saving or dividing the nation, ending or maintaining slavery, or winning the military conflict the demands we customarily understand to have been made of the Civil War generation.

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For anyone seeking a primer or refresher on America from the Vietnam war to the civil-rights movement to the space race to the sexual shenanigans of Bill Clinton this is a crisp, balanced and easily digestible narrative.

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Even worse, the army might split along ethnic lines, plunging the country into civil war and catastrophe on a vast scale for Nigeria's 100m people and the 60m or so neighbours at risk from Nigerian instability.

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Although he made dreadful mistakes in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, was devastatingly inept at handling the fight over whether the U.S. should join the League of Nations and allowed his Administration's wholesale assault on civil liberties both during and after the war, the vast majority of historians today consider Wilson a great or near-great President.

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