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This Is War and Why John Kerry’s Rhetoric Isn’t Convincing

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Kerry says that the president is not asking anyone to go to war. That makes sense, if war is only what happens when other nations kill Americans, writes Peter Beinart.

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If you want to know why so many non-Americans hate American foreign policy, simply do this: read the following statement by Secretary of State John Kerry from today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Syria:

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“We don’t want to go to war in Syria either.

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