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one of the first things that I was taught was that the purpose of an army in a democracy was to deter war and if deterrence failed, to win. In 1939–40, the army of France’s Third Republic – widely believed to be one of the strongest and
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“We could do nothing to stop the towers from falling. We could do nothing to stop the workplaces from being shot up. And when the shootings spilled out of the office buildings and into the schools, we could do nothing to stop that either. The government began watching everyone because we had given them permission.”
― The Crossing: A Novel
― The Crossing: A Novel
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