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Lessons of the Cold War with Peter Robinson

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Cuban People's War on the Soviet Union

I have reinforced our base at Guantanamo, evacuated today the dependence of our personnel there. We are asking tonight that an emergency meeting of the Security Council be convoked without delay to take action against this latest Soviet threat to world peace. Any hostile move anywhere in the world against the safety and freedom of peoples to whom we are committed will be met by whatever action is needed. No one can foresee precisely what course it will take or what course or casualties will be incurred. Many months of sacrifice and self-discipline lie ahead. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it,. One path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender or submission. Our goal

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