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If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.

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The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments.

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If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

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Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

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It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

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It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

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The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.

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What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.

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The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

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Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: June 23rd, 1952

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