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• ‟ World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

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• ‟ The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

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• ‟ Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.

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• ‟ United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

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• ‟ I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.

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• ‟ There's no question that the next generation of terrorists, rather than going for small, little dramas, will go for the big one. They now understand that the way to get the world's attention is not strapping bombs to themselves in a pizza parlour, but to do something so horrific it gets you into the Guinness Book of World Records for terrorism.

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