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From the Forum “Undoing Bush”

On a rainy day in 1945, soon after U.S. troops had entered the German concentration camp at Dachau, the American commanding officer mounted a stage. He delivered a short speech of friendship, at the close of which an American color guard bore the Stars and Stripes toward the podium. For a moment it looked as if the troops would mount the platform and plant the American flag high above the assembled prisoners.

But at the last moment, upon the colonel’s signal, they wheeled toward the assembled thousands, carried our flag into their…

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is dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and author of the new book <em>The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World.</em>

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