“War,” Carl von Clausewitz, “is simply a continuation of politics by the addition of other means.” But like all school children used to know, if A = B then B = A. So if Clausewitz is correct, then the policy is only war without death (if not in Egypt, but this is another topic for another time). That brings to mind Clausewitz today is the current state of American politics, seen through the prism of another thing that I knew at school, Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln. Modern Lincoln’s successor, President Obama, famous proclamation after winning the Iowa caucuses in 2008, “I’m not a …
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