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Obama's AfPak Dilemma: The Man Who Would Be King Or A Noble Peacemaker?

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[2] See recent documentary by BBC, On the footsteps of Alexander; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=862z-d53EF4

[3] Herman, A. (2008). Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age. New York: Bantam Books.

[4] Ibid, p. 25.

[5] Ibid, p. 26.

[6] Churchill, W. (1930). My Early Life. London: Thornton.

[7] McIntyre, B. (2008). The harsh lesson of Afghanistan: little has changed in 200 years. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/article5141513.ece; Also see Bragg, R. (2001). Afghan and Pakistani Tribe Lives by Its Own Set of Rules. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/international/asia/21PASH.html?searchpv=past7days

[8] Kipling, R. (1888). The Man Who Would Be King. In Rudyard Kipling's The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad, India: Wheeler & Co.

[9] Wikepedia, Plot Summary of The Man who Would be King. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King

[10] Dowd, M. (2009). Gandhi Wuz Robbed. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/opinion/11dowd.html?em

[11] The Norwegian Peace Committee, The Noble Peace Prize for 2009. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/press.html

[12] Obama, B. (2009). Obama's Speech to the United Nations General Assembly.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/us/politics/24prexy.text.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

[13] CNN Fact Checks Last Saturday's Obama-Razzing Skit, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kathleen-mckinley/2009/10/06/cnn-fact-checks-snl

[14] Herman, A. (2008). Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age. New York: Bantam Books, p. 173.

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