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The Weekend Read: Hugh White on the folly of the War on Terror

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Australia and the Cold War - What's Going Wrong?

Byden says he has withdrawn from afghanistan and forsworn further interventions so that america can focus on all these challenges at home and abroad. Australia has a huge stake in the outcome, because we have bet our future on America's ability to face china down and reassert its leadership in asiaAustralia's faith in its ally was badly shaken by its failure in vietnam,. Now doubts about us. Power and resolve are re surfacing again after the scenes cabal in august. We radically overestimated the threats and we radically overestimated our power. Our exaggeration of the threat remains deeply puzzling. Before the planes hit the twin towers, great power rivalry and

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