In all these cases and countless others, Obama's senior appointees are implementing policies that are even more radical and dangerous than the radical and dangerous policies of the Washington policy establishment.

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And it's mostly been considered not dangerous or radical.

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"There are very few places where people who do radical, dangerous things can get together and share them, " says Dan Dubno.

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Roosevelt was prepared to be radical to meet dangerous circumstances.

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Not only was their thinking radical, but expressing it was dangerous.

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But if the West can be charged with hypocrisy (actually, nuclear numbers have been tumbling in recent years and, until India broke the testing taboo, there was pressure for more radical cuts), India and Pakistan are guilty of a dangerous complacency.

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