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"A Changed World"

Or, "An Essential War".

George P. Shultz gave the third annual Kissinger Lecture, Feb. 11, at the Library of Congress.

A condensed version was published at Foreign Policy Research Institute, Mar. 22:

We are at one of those special moments in history: the topic of the day is Iraq and weapons not accounted for; but our action in Iraq has implications that go far beyond this in areas including Israeli-Palestinian issues and our own dangerous dependence on imported oil....

An adaptation was published at OpinionJournal, Mar. 29:

We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did. (Don Rumsfeld was an outspoken exception.) ....

I haven't been able to find an un-condensed, un-adapted version.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 04/01/04 06:36:31 AM
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