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Either the national security adviser-designate and other “exceptionalists” are true believers, or rank cynics driven by ambition and enough intelligence or charisma to say what’s needed to justify U.S. aggression, says Danny Sjursen.
The former president’s deception and warmongering killed the “hope and change” he promised on the campaign trail, writes James Bovard.