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our politics may run on two-year cycles, but our problems do not. we won't get to full employment in two years. we won't get out of debt in two >> our founders made a revolutionary choice. they created a government that was bound every two years to listen to the people's verdict. we should listen to the peoplel be another election and there are easier ways to win than taking on the long-term structural problems that defy quick answers. it's easier to borrow and leave someone else with the bill. it's easier to rail against spending without cutting anything of substance. it's easier to...

around $25 billion a year. we think we can achieve the same objectives by 2014 with a force of one quarter that size. that force is important and it cannot be at tiny force, 10,000 or less, because it will not have sufficient capability to do the job. our vital interests are what drives us. we have a vital interest to keep pressure on al qaeda to prevent them from attacking the united states. we did that from afghanistan as well as with our friends in pakistan. if we took those networks out of afghanistan, we would lose that understanding of what is going on with al qaeda, even insid...