If only fences are mended with the United Nations, they have been encouraged to believe, the world will once again leave us alone.

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Our commanders will soon be hard pressed to preserve today's deployments of American forces in Iraq, let alone to have them take up once again the sorts of positions in the urban areas that they held to such therapeutic effect during the surge.

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If we'd once again leave the economy alone, non-traditional forms of finance would continue to grow, traditional banks would continue to decline in relevance, and our system of finance would be much healthier.

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This makes Sarofim, who last appeared on the Forbes 400 in 2007, a billionaire once again on his publicly traded assets alone.

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Once again, I am unsure of how one can draw this conclusion based upon history alone.

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