Even now it is not too late - let us all act NOW in our own global interests.

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"Our role is to assist in this battle because we have our own security interests in its success, " Napolitano said at the White House.

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So the days when we could view our own interests in isolation are over.

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But we city-dwellers have a crazy belief that planning decisions in our city should focus primarily on our own interests.

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In the interests of openness, the peak to trough for our own International composite was 49% from May of 2008 to February of 2009 with only 19 holdings.

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In other words, when empathy is switched off, we think only about our own interests.

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Supporting policies that are only superficially in my own interests right now would indulge just the kind of short-sightedness that our friends on the left criticize when they implore us to think of the children.

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Embedded in this is a respect that the things important to the other side are just as important as our own interests are to us.

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