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A perfect circle of party power

By Charles Krauthammer
Sunday, March 14, 2010 - Added 6 months ago
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WASHINGTON - As the Afghanistan War intensifies - Marja, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000 new American troops - it has come to be seen as Obama’s war.

Not so. It’s become America’s war. When the former opposition party - habitually anti-war for the last four decades - adopts, reaffirms and escalates a war begun by the habitually hawkish other party, partisanship falls away, and the war becomes nationalized.

 
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