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  • Some who call themselves realists question whether the spread of democracy in the Middle East should be any concern of ours. But the realists in this case have lost contact with a fundamental reality: America has always been less secure when freedom is in retreat; America is always more secure when freedom is on the march.

    Remarks by the President at the United States Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 2, 2004.
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