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 | | It is the manifest destiny of the United States to proclaim those truths, that shining city, that light unto the world. |
 | | But if requests for international cooperation are not successful, and the national security of the United States is at stake, then we as a people should be resolved, despite the loss of lives, to act in our own self defense without asking anybody's permission first, or listening to their Monday morning quarterbacking after the fact. |
 | | The United States, as the world's only superpower, in the age of terror in which we live, has a moral obligation to step in in such a case, as necessary, to see that the spirit of Non-Proliferation which President Kennedy spoke so eloquently about at Georgetown University in 1963, is enforced." |
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