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" Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else. "

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" Historians evaluating George W. Bush's first term will focus on foreign policy and, most of all, 9/11. I think they will criticize him for his early reaction, for not returning at once to Washington, D.C. "

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