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by Herb Greer, Andrew J. Neff, Thomas Sowell, Daniel Bell, Francois Bondy, George Szamuely, Gloria M. Stewart, Irwin M. Stelzer, Leon Steinmetz, Leon Aron, Stanley P. Kessel, David Vital, Vera Endig, Karen Stenbo Sapolsky, Jessica Gress-Wright, Leo Raditsa, Richard John Neuhaus, Oscar Wald, and Eliot A. Cohen

Commentary, April 1990, pp. 2-18

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    3. How to Fight Iraq by Eliot A. Cohen, pp. 21-27
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