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Look, We'll Have To Confront The Pathologies Of Poverty At Some Point. We Can Deal With Them Cheaply At The Front End, In Infancy. Or We Can Wait And Jail A Troubled Adolescent At The Tail End. To Some Extent, We Face A Choice Between Investing In Preschools Or In Prisons.

Half A Million Women Die Each Year Around The World In Pregnancy. It's Not Biology That Kills Them So Much As Neglect.

Let Me Be Clear: I'm A Believer In A Robust Military, Which Is Essential For Backing Up Diplomacy. But The Implication Is That We Need A Balanced Tool Chest Of Diplomatic And Military Tools Alike. Instead, We Have A Billionaire Military And A Pauper Diplomacy. The U.s. Military Now Has More People In Its Marching Bands Than The State Department Has In Its Foreign Service - And That's Preposterous.

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One Of The Great Failings Of The American Education System (in Our View) Is That Young People Can Graduate From University Without Any Understanding Of Poverty At Home Or Abroad.