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President Obama may think the arc of history bends toward justice but the arc of American foreign policy under him no less than other recent Presidents bends toward war and more war. The ruling elite has no better ideas for a troubled world than bombings, drone strikes, invasions, assassinations, kidnappings, secret prisons, torture, and other war crimes. The cost to Americans is high: a ruinous war budget and less freedom and security. To the world, the cost is cataclysmic in civilian deaths and mounting chaos. How can we keep silent?