The Passing of the Present and the Decline of America

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“I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Kurt Vonnegut’s famous novel about the World War II bombing of the German city of Dresden appeared the year I graduated from West Point. While dimly aware that its publication More

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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Andrew Bacevich.

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