But we cannot lose sight of the fact that the blame for this lies with the terrorists.

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But we cannot lose sight of the fact that there is violence all the time in America and that we need to take concerted action to deal with it.

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And the fact that it was not as severe as it could have been may be true, but we cannot lose sight of the fact that many, many Americans were severely affected by it, and some lost their lives.

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But I also believe that we cannot lose the opportunity to meet this challenge.

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So we've totally redirected our FBI now from its traditional function to homeland security, and much of the same thing is going in the CIA. But as we're doing that, we cannot lose site of that part of the world, and the interests that we have there.

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