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[viii] Coerr, 68.

[ix] As of September 28, 2009, Congress had approved about $944 billion for military operations, base security, reconstruction, intelligence, foreign aid, embassy costs, and veterans' health care relating toIraq, Afghanistan, and other antiterror-related operations since September 11. Amy Belasco, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11 (Congressional Research Service, 2009). See www.fas.org.

[x] Osama bin Laden, videotaped message aired on Al-Jazeera, quoted in "Transcript: Translation of Bin Laden's Videotaped Message," Washington Post, November 1, 2004, www.washingtonpost.com.

[xi] William S. Lind, Maneuver Warfare Handbook (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1985), 5.

[xii] Thomas Hammes, "Countering Evolved Insurgent Networks," Marine Corps Gazette 91:10 (October, 2007): 92.

[xiii] Coram, 326.

[xiv] Ibid.

[xv] Since its inception in the 6^th century C.E., the Rule of St. Benedict has become the guideline for Benedictines, Cistercians, and numerous other monastic orders around the world. A practical and concise outline for the development of self-discipline, it has played an instrumental role in shaping the European world artistically, literally, academically, spiritually and even politically during the 10^th - 12^th centuries, which are sometimes called "the Benedictine centuries."

[xvi] Alexis de Tocqueville, Writings on Empire and Slavery, trans. and ed. Jennifer Pitts (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2001), 49.