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We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change.

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We need to intensify cooperation with civilized governments all over the world to combat the common threat of terrorism.

America cannot be the world's policeman. But we must reject the new isolationism that says: don't help anywhere, because we can not help everywhere.

Going it alone may satisfy a political instinct but it is dangerous to our military, even without their Commander in Chief taunting terrorists to "bring it on."

We need not only a new generation of weapons. We need a new generation of thinking.

A responsible foreign policy must harness all our economic and military might — but it must also make use of our values and principles.

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