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Does duty call in Libya?

On Independence Day in 1821, then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams delivered an address on foreign policy to Congress. The question that preoccupied them all at that moment was how to respond to the wave of revolutionary independence movements sweeping Spain's vast colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere.

Tim Rutten

March 26, 2011

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