Win the War on Terror

Richard Brookhiser, an acclaimed historian, is the author of an a 1996 biography of George Washington. His most recent book is What Would the Founders Do? Our Questions, Their Answers. Here is his advice for President-Elect Obama.

From Reader's Digest

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Mr. President: The main priority for you, and for your successors over the next thirty years, is winning the war jihadists have declared on us. Afghanistan and Iraq are but phases of it. It will require violence, cunning, generosity, wealth, and inspiration. Other presidents had challenges as hard—or harder. This is yours.

From Reader's Digest - January 2009

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