02/08/2012
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"The historic changes now reshaping the broader Middle East are a direct repudiation of al Qaeda and its terrorist allies."
"The transition process will start with a limited conditions-based withdrawal this year."
"Not since the fall of the Soviet Union have we seen a wave of change destabilize more critical countries all at once than we are now witnessing."
"the populist-inspired changes are a direct repudiation of the violent extremists because these young folks today have achieved more change in 10 weeks than 10 years of al Qaeda's murderous campaign."