International
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Who knew that when President Bashar al-Assad started slitting the throats of children, gunning down entire families in their living quarters, littering villages and cities with corpses of brave young men and women–that somehow, the job of stopping this royal madness would fall on Africans? Since this conflict began, the world, inadvertently, has repeatedly called
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I learned a valuable lesson in the fall of 2003. For a 20-year-old, it vulgarly and violently shattered whatever cemented notions I held of power. Literary texts and other conventional sources of wisdom that had helped crystallize a young man’s idealistic view of power suddenly became limp. Only one thing, and one thing now means
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