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The question,then,is how we respond. And on this we must agree: there is no speech that justifies mindless violence.There are no words that excuse the killing of innocents. There is no video that justifies an attack on an embassy. There is no slander that provides an excuse for people to burn a restaurant in Lebanon,
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He wishes more Ameri-cans would do what he did on his second trip to Egypt: travel to the Muslim world,not just to sightsee but to talk to ordinary people. "We shouldn't hunker down af-ter these wars. Our American story is so powerful," he says,
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