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Dwight Eisenhower once declared that the pursuit of peace required unwavering boldness, and the execution to back it up. To proclaim you want peace "is easy," the war hero turned president said during his second inauguration speech. "To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be ... ready to pay its full price." President Obama and his national security team might want to go back to the textbooks and absorb some of old Ike's wisdom. No matter where one stands on the crises in the Middle East, there's little argument right now on either side of...