"I do not believe we ought to add troops in Afghanistan unless it is indispensable in our war against al-Qaida, "If it is, then we have to do whatever it takes because al-Qaida is out to annihilate us.

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And here lies the seed of possible dissonance between South Korea and the U.S. The former may find it worthwhile to woo Beijing's indispensable support in forging peace with the North, even to the point of eventually showing American forces the door and, more important, declining to join the proposed U.S. Theater Missile Defense system.

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For there is one final quality that I believe makes the United States and the United Kingdom indispensable to this moment in history.

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