To the contrary, it is all the more urgent - in part to ensure that the situation in Libya does not escalate into another Darfur, in part to make clear to dictators across the world that we will never again stand silent, and in part to rectify, as best we can, the wrongs that we have already committed.

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Now a part of me will never touch Earth again, Chase.

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When 18 crack American soldiers died there in one disastrous night in October 1993, the intervention force of which they were a part was pulled out and the Americans resolved never to intervene in Africa again.

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With the debt-ceiling crisis, however, the willingness to wait until the last moment removed any chance of learning and, more to the point, there was never much of a commitment to learning on the part of many of the principal actors: over and over again we were informed that such thoughtful exploration was out of the question because of prior campaign pledges made to constituents.

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Part of that foundation has to be a financial regulatory system that ensures we never face a crisis like this again.

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