03/23/2009
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"Isn't the urgency of this such that a more dramatic push is really in the national interest?"
"For the better part of 50 or 60 years, our foreign policy had been deeply entwined with oil, in one form or another."
"The United States has an intense strategic interest in Pakistan and the surrounding region."
"Another military coup, another military takeover, another military intervention would be very much against the interests of the United States, and, above all, the people of Pakistan."