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Obama welcomes debate on terror war as a means of avoiding it

By Gene Healy
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Obama welcomes debate on terror war as a means of avoiding it

A year ago Friday, President Obama took a break from waging perpetual war to warn Americans that “perpetual war … will prove self-defeating, and alter our country in troubling ways.”

The post-9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force “is now nearly 12 years old,” Obama proclaimed, and “this war, like all wars, must end. … That’s what our democracy demands.”

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