Advocates of limited government, it is said, have lost the battle of health care, but won the war of the commerce clause.

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The offer included a clause that gave Berkshire an out in the event of "war or armed hostilities" that involved the U.S. even indirectly.

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It said that if the stand-off was not serious enough to invoke the clause, then it was difficult to imagine what could, "short of all out war".

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