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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Max Boot / The Bulletin
July 10, 2011
The signature line of President Barack Obama’s June 22 Afghanistan address was “America, it is time to focus on nation-building here at home.” This no doubt resonates among an electorate sick of foreign wars and eager to focus on domestic problems, but it is a wrongheaded statement.
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