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Gen. David Petraeus gave a very moving going-away speech this last week after 37 years as a man of honor in military uniform. We will still need this most respected American general since Eisenhower because:

The New York Times reports that President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority said Monday that he was going to the United Nations this month to seek membership for a state of Palestine. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said at a separate event that a Palestinian bid for recognition by the United Nations would “set back peace, and might set it back for years.”

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