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The Iraq War and the Limits of American Power

The Foreign Affairs Interview

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The Importance of American Global Leadership

Sally Kohn: The U.S. should not abdicate its leadership responsibility in allow tyrannies whether Russia or China or Iran or North Korea to run amok. She says President Biden is right to avoid sending American troops or American aircraft to avoid any kind of direct clash with Russia but we certainly need to be the arsenal of democracy and supporting regimes that are being attacked on the way that Ukraine was attacked, she said.Kohn: I think it's very much in our interest to enforce the international order to enforce certain international norms and the international rule of lawMuch like George H.W. Bush did in 1991 by mobilizing this coalition to say that this aggression committed by Iraq

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