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Is It Too Late to Save America?
http://www.alternet.org/story/15425/

For this writer, descendent of veterans and frontiersmen, America is not an empire, but rather a small place held together by our shared hopes and expectations. Is that now to be replaced by shared fear and stagnation?
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