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60 years of faulty logic

60 years of faulty logic ............ "The speech amounted, as one of Truman's advisers characterized it, to a declaration of religious war. In the transcendent struggle between Moscow and Washington, 'nonalignment' was not an option. Truman declared that the United States would actively support 'free' people anywhere who were resisting either internal or external threats to that freedom. The 'free world' was born, but so, eventually, were disastrous wars in Korea and Vietnam."......................

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