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Douglas J. Feith is director of the Center for National Security Strategies and a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. He served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from July, 2001 to August, 2005. In that position Mr. Feith helped devise the U.S. government’s strategy for…

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