David Brooks: belief

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…Of course it is, but what does the list have to look like for you to make the trade-off? First, let me get the headline before we get to your caveats. Charles de Gaulle wrote a memoir, and in that first sentence of the memoir, his memoir, was, “All my life, I’ve had a certain idea about France. ” I would say all my life, I’ve had a certain idea about America, that we’re sometimes a foolish nation. We’re often a naive nation, but we’re rarely a cruel and ill-intentioned nation. We may disagree about this, but I thought the decision, at least temporarily, to get rid of PEPFAR was deliberate and cruel. No, we agree.…

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