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Ivan Eland  Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute

U.S. Response to Syrian Civil War and Refugee Crisis Is Telling

Posted: 09/08/2015

The American response to the Syrian civil war and resulting refugee crisis should illustrate to all the unfortunate militarization of U.S. foreign policy. The nation's anti-militaristic founders -- who blanched at the militarism of European kings and thus refused, in the U.S. Constitution, even to authorize a standing army -- would be horrified. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/us-response-to-syrian-civ_b_8103888.html