From TWS Online: The Anti-Churchill, by Nile Gardner. From the Washington Post: Olympic Fallacies, by Anne Applebaum. From Commentary: Anatomy of the Surge, by Peter Feaver. From the Prospect: Myth of a New Cold War, by Stephen Kotkin. From Contentions: Obama’s Hollow Doctrine, by Noah Pollak.

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