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The new energy realists.
IN AUGUST 2005, President Bush asked me to undertake a diplomatic mission to Algeria and Morocco to facilitate the release of the longest-held prisoners of war in the world: 404 Moroccan soldiers, some of whom had been held since the 1970s by the Polisario Front operating out of Algeria. While in the region, I took the opportunity to visit Libya to help move forward the process of normalizing relations between the United States and Libya, and met with senior officials, including Muammar Qaddafi.
But this trip also brought me face to face with the new reality of global economic life. The hotel where I stayed in Tripoli, the Corinthia, was filled with representatives from China,...See the full content of this document
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