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No, We Don’t Need These Forever Wars
China doesn’t have an empire. The United States doesn’t need to saber-rattle. And we really don’t need to fight these forever wars.
Jason Brownlee is a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin specializing in comparative politics and foreign policy. He is the author of Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the US-Egyptian Alliance.
China doesn’t have an empire. The United States doesn’t need to saber-rattle. And we really don’t need to fight these forever wars.