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A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist
Truces like the one in the Gulf get broken all the time. But they still work
Good data are hard to come by
Kennedy, Johnson and McNamara were private realists but chose the path of least resistance, writes Fredrik Logevall
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