Japan, which has local police forces rather than a real national one and is hesitant, for historical reasons, about interfering with religious groups, may be the only industrial democracy where a sect like Aum Shinrikyo could have gathered so much destructive power.

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Roosevelt, according to the author, was overly cautious and hesitant, preferring to follow public opinion rather than lead it.

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