On the recordAugust 5, 2009
The future offered by extremists is not one of peace but violence, not of hope and opportunity but poverty and despair.
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presidency.ucsb.edu“The future offered by extremists is not one of peace but violence, not of hope and opportunity but poverty and despair.”
Remarks by Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John O. Brennan
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