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In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.
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Thousand
Words
Picture
Picture Is Worth
Thousand Words
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Emotions may win arguments, but they don't win wars.
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Wars
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In the real world, words don't automatically translate into deeds.
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Deeds
Real World
Translate
Automatically
The Real World
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Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop.
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Anger
Angry
Impossible
Slow
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Every president, as he nears the end of his final term in office, thinks about his place in history.
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Term
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While President Putin is busy redrawing the map of Europe, President Obama is busy filling out his brackets.
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Busy
Filling
President Obama
Putin
Obama
Map
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Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.
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Country
Egypt
Important
Affects
Arab
Largest
Oldest
Region
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Despite spending trillions of dollars and spilling the blood of thousands of Americans, we remain in servitude to Arab oil.
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Dollars
Servitude
Spilling
Arab
Thousands
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We realize too late that President Bush shouldn't have taken us into Iraq, and President Obama shouldn't have taken us out.
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President Bush
Too Late
Bush
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In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.
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Foreign Policy
Fails
The Only Thing
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There is a growing sense among Americans outside the Beltway that while President Obama may be a good talker, he is a lousy manager.
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President Obama
Lousy
Manager
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Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.
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Claims
Batter
Best Part
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In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.
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Administration
Obama
First Step
Long Process
Obama Administration
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Don't worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains... who is the next Ronald Reagan?
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Barack
Carter
Jimmy
Remains
Barack Obama
Jimmy Carter
Survive
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It is important not to let emotions get in the way of cold, hard, calculated military planning. Emotions may win arguments, but they don't win wars.
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War
May
Winning
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When the commander-in-chief sends Americans to fight and die, it should be only to protect our vital national interests, not for his own personal, political gain.
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Commander In Chief
National Interests
Protect
Gain
Interests
National
Sends
Vital
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Americans don't like to stand by while innocent people are killed and watch a human disaster unfold. It goes against our very fiber. We feel compelled to do something.
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Compelled
Disaster
Fiber
Innocent
Innocent People
Unfold
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Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening.
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Empty
Leading
Thinks
Threats
Worse
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The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed.
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Despised
Majority
Good People Will
All Americans
Breed
Nearly
Politicians
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Whatever the final outcome in Iraq, our men and women in uniform should stand tall with pride for a job well done. It was our political leaders - of both parties and both presidencies - who failed us.
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Men And Women
Political Leaders
Pride
Well Done
Men Women Done
Both Parties
Failed
Women Men Political
Outcome
Parties
Uniform
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It's the libertarians who want to reclaim decision-making for themselves. It's the small government folks who see government as a great Leviathan gobbling up more and more of their treasure and freedoms.
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Decision Making
Folks
Small Government
Treasure
Freedoms
Libertarians
More And More
Reclaim
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Foreign policy is something Americans care about when the economy is good, and when it isn't, they hardly notice it. It's hard to worry about what happens in the Mideast when you don't have a job in the Midwest.
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Foreign Policy
Midwest
Hardly
Notice
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Reagan won the Cold War by first restoring America's economy and military and then staring down an economically weakened Soviet Union. He knew defeating Russia couldn't be accomplished without laying the groundwork.
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Accomplished
Cold
Cold War
Groundwork
Restoring
Russia
Soviet
Soviet Union
Staring
Defeating
Economically
War America Cold War
Laying
Union
Reagan
Weakened
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One of the lessons of Vietnam, which we failed to heed in the Iraq war and the Afghanistan surge, is that before you commit U.S. military forces to aid or assist, it is essential to know what you want them to achieve.
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Afghanistan
Commit
Heed
Iraq War
Lessons
Vietnam
Aid
Surge
Assist
Failed
Essential
Forces
Military Forces
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You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time.
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Empty
Foreign Policy
Hollow
Next Time
Parent
Time Work Good
Work Time Good
Promises
Threats
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The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.
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Blame
Eloquent
Ignorance
Problem
Real World
Speech
Books
Fix
Wrong
Feign
The Problem With
Theories
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Our military leaders don't seize power in coups; our soldiers and sailors don't go on strike for higher pay or benefits; our armed forces don't weigh in on the political process. In return, Americans have a sacred duty to treat them honorably.
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Armed Forces
Benefits
Return
Sacred
Armed
Coup
Forces
Honorably
Political Process
Sacred Duty
Seize
Soldiers
Strike
Treat
Weigh
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As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil.
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Independence
East
Energy Independence
Middle East
Oil
Crises
Drawn
Endemic
Liberate
Price
Region
Worldwide
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Al Qaeda attacked the U.S.S. Cole and bombed several U.S. embassies in East Africa in the late 1990s. We knew who did it, but we didn't go after them. Instead, we beefed up security at our embassies and changed the Navy's rules of engagement. It only served to embolden Al Qaeda.
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East
Engagement
Navy
Africa
Al
Attacked
Bombed
Qaeda
Served
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The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for political purposes. He uses the military or intelligence communities to protect the United States and our citizens, not to help him win elections.
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Citizens
Intelligence Community
National Security
Opponents
Political Opponents
Communities
Elections
Purposes
Seize
Uses
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We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.
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Arms
Default
Factions
Middle
Normal
Position
Temporary
West
Win Or Lose
Affairs
Beginning
Fails
Lay
Resume
Warring
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Russia does not have a modern economy: it's a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the world wants to buy is oil and natural gas. When was the last time anyone bought a Russian computer? A Russian car? A Russian cell phone? Russia is so dependent on high energy prices that if oil falls below $100 a barrel, the Kremlin can't meet payroll.
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Cell Phone
Dependent
Gas
High Energy
Last Time
Natural Gas
Oil
Payroll
Russia
Sells
Time Car World
Barrel
Below
Bought
Cell
Energy Prices
Falls
Car Time World
Prices
The Only Thing
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