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He Forgot The Children

July 1, 2007

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8:11 pm

Daniel Larison

And so for the sake of our own security, for the sake of the security of the United States of America, the United States must stand with millions of moms and dads throughout the Middle East [bold mine-DL] who want a future of dignity and peace, and we must help them defeat a common enemy. ~President Bush

Via USC Center on Public Diplomacy

Here we have public diplomacy as boilerplate stump speech.

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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