GARY KOHLS—Modern American wars are now being fought by thoroughly indoctrinated, post-adolescent, Call of Duty-type first person shooter gamers who liked the adrenalin high of killing virtual “bad guys” in a videogame. Sadly, unbeknownst to them, they are at high risk of having their emotional and spiritual lives negatively and permanently altered by the physical, mental and spiritual damage that always comes from participating in actual homicidal violence.
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WESTERN EXCEPTIONALISM
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The most widely remembered episode of a U.S. administration using an intelligence-based public presentation…
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NATO’s broken promises: Time to admit West bears serious responsibility for tension in E. Europe
22 minutes readDANIELLE RYAN—NATO expansion, of course, continued well beyond 1999, beyond Kennan’s death in 2005…
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MICHAEL K. SMITH—Something unprecedented was at the root of flipping battleground states that had…
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NAFEEZ AHMED & ANDREW MARKELL—The commodification of information is part and parcel of the…