What's interesting about it, though, is the structure of the argument.

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Trying to pull off both, he sacrifices structure and clarity of argument.

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This argument makes sense, yet the structure would still create a system where compliant, responsible patients are subsidizing those who don't take care of themselves.

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And in the 1970s and 1980s, conservative women invoked patriotic motherhood to argue against the equal rights amendment, saying it would unhinge the structure of the family and a woman's privileged place (their argument) in American society.

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The 2001, 2006, and 2010 QDRs attempted to address this fact, but failed to make a compelling argument, in part because they juxtaposed the requirements to maintain a two-MRC force structure with the requirements to address other missions and investment objectives, whether in capabilities for other missions or in advanced military technologies.

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That argument will be much easier to make if the second set of opportunities to do with updating the structure of the state has been grasped.

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