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The Current Crisis
From Gutfeld to Naipaul
A Red Eye special look at infidels and losers.
WASHINGTON — A few days after the failed attempt of a Pakistani-born naturalized American citizen to blow Times Square sky high, I bravely made my way through the returning throng of tourists and street vendors to take a look. By my calculation had the jackal, Faisal Shahzad, 30, succeeded with his evil project in the early evening of Saturday May 1 to explode the SUV he left on a Times Square street, he might have killed several hundred of utterly innocent civilians, possibly a thousand. Fortunately he failed. Despite instructions from highly experienced terrorists back home, he packed his Nissan Pathfinder with the wrong kind of fertilizer. A variety unsuited for bombs. The firecrackers he rigged up as detonators were insufficiently powerful to set his incendiaries off. Finally, according to my favorite intelligence analyst, Rush Limbaugh, Shahzad’s alarm clocks, which were supposed to serve as timers, were set wrong. He failed to distinguish AM from PM. Oh, yes, and he ran from the SUV, leaving on its key ring the keys to his getaway car and to his apartment.
The evil Shahzad’s incompetence, we are told, should not give us confidence that the next attempt by another terrorist or terrorist group will fizzle as his did. The failed attempt in 1993 to blow up the World Trade Center was followed brief years later by 9/11. In fact, the terrorist threats against us here at home continue and may be speeding up. Since 9/11 there have been 20 Islamists terrorist plots directed against us at home, former Attorney General Michael R. Mukasey, writes in the Wall Street Journal, including Major Nidal Hasan’s massacre of American soldiers at Fort Hood. He urges that any terrorist such as Shahzad be designated as “an unlawful enemy combatant” and that information obtained from them in interrogation remain confidential to be exploited against our enemies. Doubtless he is right and prudent in his recommendations.
Yet without diminishing the extent of the threat from Islamist terrorists, let me return to my expedition into Times Square. Naturally, brave as I am, I did not face those crowds alone. I was accompanied by Greg Gutfeld whom the nation’s insomniacs and a growing cult of niche viewers know is the host of Fox News’ nightly Red Eye, which airs in the East at 3:00 AM. Aficionados burdened by normative daytime schedules TiVo it. He is also known — though to a smaller audience — as the man who while working for me robbed me of a hoard of pre-Castro cigars the night he was supposed to be assisting the Secret Service while President Ronald Reagan dined at my home and I introduced the Old Cowboy to King Frederick the Great’s flute concerto in G major. Yes, I know our current president is supposed to be very intellectual, but it is Ronald Reagan who was the first president to listen to the music of the Prussian dilettante.
At any rate I have forgiven Gutfeld, and so after reconnoitering the area I even allowed him to buy me a drink at a local saloon, where he filled me in on his view of the Islamists who confront us. He came quickly to the point. Said he: “They’re losers.” He cited the large numbers of them who come to America, immerse themselves in our popular culture, go broke, and still cannot find a nice American girl to marry. Later, he elaborated on his findings in his blog: “The fact is, these guys — despite their education — are seduced by a belief system devised to offer something they can’t find anywhere else. Recognition. The shortest line to fame is infamy. Think about how it works in America. If you’re a young man out to impress a girl, you join a band. Another becomes a comic. Another might obsess over his quads in a gym. But few alternatives exist for jihad-embracing losers when your culture demonizes women.” “Men are left angry,” writes Gutfeld, who then launched into a diatribe that sounds very much as though he could begin a second career as a sex therapist, especially a sex therapist for Islamist terrorists dissatisfied with Big Bang theories propounded by a fat and grinning mullah.
There is a huge ambivalence about the Islamist terrorists, even a hypocrisy. The ambivalence and hypocrisy have been inherent in the angry Islamists for a long time. After a journey through Islam back in the 1970s V.S. Naipaul offered his perception of it: “All the rejection of the West is contained within the assumption that there will always exist out there a living, creative civilization, oddly neutral, open to all to appeal to.” Of course, that was before the Islamists began planting bombs on our shores and dreaming of bigger and bigger bombs.
About the Author
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: the Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery.
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Kitty| 5.13.10 @ 6:49AM
If the men "are left angry," can you imagine how the women must feel? We never hear much about the women, who are kept concealed in those stifling burkas. The comedian BJ Novak summarized their lives in 48 seconds. It's brilliant and funny and sad:
http://www.comedycentral.com/v.....-in-heaven
Ken (Old Texican)| 5.13.10 @ 8:16AM
Kitty,
Thank you.
Folks,
be sure to watch the youtube link above.
Terrorists,
This is how stupid your beliefs are.
Kathy| 5.13.10 @ 9:12AM
The comedian sums it up perfectly.
Anyone who's not seen the video of David Horowitz and the terrorist student at UCSD, a public university, ought to take a peek.
Kitty| 5.13.10 @ 9:37AM
The video of David Horowitz and the terrorist student at UCS:
http://www.newsrealblog.com/20.....holocaust/
Alan Brooks| 5.13.10 @ 10:15AM
The sad part is Weasal is better off in America than in Jackalstan.
Weasal is better off than most poor people: better off w/ 3 hots, cot, med & dental care in the slammer here, than in Jackalstan.
He is crazy like a fox?
Idaho Boy| 5.13.10 @ 7:17AM
Great observation. My 27 years working in agriculture in the Middle East have taught me that Muslims have a marked tendency to go for short cuts to get what they want. The years of the daily tedium of hard work and attention to detail to become good at a profession or skill - what those of us in the real world have to go through - is not for them. Cheat your way to an academic degree, use subterfuge and family connections to get a job above your capability, short circuit government procedures to get permits and licenses, flatter, bribe, kiss posteriers - all that kind of "work" is more appealing and, by the way, more admired, than the slog that brings the long term reward. Some thoughtful Muslim and Arab have observed this tendency and written about it. But these small voices run up against another marked tendency in Muslim socieities: societal self criticism and analysis is frowned on. And most certainly if one even intimates that Islam itself might have some responsibility, which I think it does have . As a religion, compared to Christianity and Judaism, Islam itself is a shortcut. I have observed that common, ordinary Muslims get much solace and peace in their lives from practicing Islam, just as people of other religions do. I do not begrudge them that. But Islam never developed the depth, the profundity, and the richness that come out of the Hebrew and Christian Scripture. To please God, Islam doesn't demand much of Muslims. Christianity and Judaism demands much more, especially from the heart.
All the human vices and virtues exist in all peoples, but they vary in sharp degrees by culture. Islamic societies, much as I like their good manners and other fine customs, want the material and benefits painstakingly created in the West, without the sweat. The fame that the Jidadists want from blowing themselves up is, indeed, just another shortcut.
R Martin| 5.13.10 @ 8:05AM
"...short circuit government procedures to get permits and licenses, flatter, bribe, kiss posteriers..."
I suspect the "good manners" you like may simply be part of the conniving you describe so well. Long ago I stopped regarding Islam as a religion. It's a philosophy, and a rather nasty one at that, of repression, intolerance and violence.
Idaho Boy| 5.13.10 @ 10:03AM
Good manners are certainly a form of conniving here. Good point. They are so good at it that despite my being here for a long, I still, every day, have to hold tightly on my pants to keep them from being charmed off. But I still have to confess that I get a kick out of it. Our dumbed down diplomats, senators and Jimmy Carters can't hold on to their pants.
Don't get me wrong I regard Islam as the absolute antithesis of our traditional, wonderful Western culture . But at the folk level there are many of these people, unfortunately the LESS "educated" , who are simple people, with some daily pious practices, who don't want to harm anyone and are grateful for the work I give them. Violence is still learned behaviour with the simple folk where I am.
So the saying "a little learning is a dangerous thing", is an even more dangerous proposition when it comes to Islamic education - meaning their public schools. Traditional Muslims' kids going to local schools is a threat and the so called smarter ones going to the West for schooling is even worse.
The schools are where they learn to repeat their deadly nonsense. Left alone and "ignorant" so to speak, they stay comparatively human.
Tom| 5.13.10 @ 8:19AM
While I am no fan of Islam to say the Koran God, or Allah, does not ask much from Muslims is off base I think.
Kathy| 5.13.10 @ 9:13AM
Why?
Tom| 5.13.10 @ 9:33AM
Why what? Why am I not a fan? Or why do I think Allah does not ask much of Muslims is off base?
The Koran has severe restrictions on allowable behavior. What it prescribes as proper behavior is very detailed and extensive. To me, and this is just me, it is not whether Islam asks great sacrifices from its adherents - I think it does - but how it mandates treatment of those who are not Muslim that is the real problem.
R Martin| 5.13.10 @ 9:53AM
You should observe the "detailed and extensive proper behavior" of the devout Muslims who go to London to unwind. It's a philosophy of hypocracy.
Tom| 5.13.10 @ 7:36PM
Mr. Martin,
Every religion has its hypocrites. Catholic priests abusing children, Protestant preachers visiting hookers, humans are fallible. But in my opinion the problems with Islam lay much deeper than those adherents that fail to live up to its code.
cain| 5.16.10 @ 6:27AM
I'd say we need to open a few prisons for the scarf wearer's. Then supply the coolade that sends them to their maker.
Idaho Boy| 5.13.10 @ 10:34AM
I said that as a kind of provocation. It depends on what asking much means. Islam does ask for daily prayers, ablutions, things that take time and sometimes complex activities. Fundamentalists go further, demanding ever new and more complicated pious actions from beard length to decisions about their women showing their faces, or even hands, the opaqeuness of their veils, debates about the validity of prayers during which you accidently passed gas..... I know that sounds demanding in a way.
What I am talking about is the more profound demands of the conscience and heart, the morals for example that our people in the West were asked to live by, though they often fell short. Islam, strangely, doesn't demand much on that front. As long as you perform even the most rudimentary actions described in the first paragraph you are o.k. Keeping your word, commitments, paying your bills, quietly helping others, refraining from sexual indiscretions when others are not looking is not part of it. I know some Muslims may protest to what I say here, but really it is a very legalistic, public religion. It is not, again, a religion of the heart. Giving your time and doing public pieties are easier than what Judaism and Christianity demand - the contrite spirit and listening to your conscience.
JP| 5.13.10 @ 8:22AM
Yet, Islam continues to spread -either through violence or through open evangelization. I wouldn't discount its appeal. In Thailand it continues its slow march northward from Indonesia. Ditto for the Philippines, Nigeria, and India. Even in China Islam has made a foothold (albeit, rather tenuous). And in Europe, Islam is making slow inroads in an otherwise secular culture.
Radical Islam uses violence to bully its enemies. But, the more mainstream Islamic groups use the weaknesses of the host societies to gain a legitimacy as well as influence way out of proportion of its size. In the US, it works through both the universities as well as pop culture and legal systems.
Islam doesn't need to competent in order to succeed - it just needs to be persistent and patient.
Dai Alanye | 5.13.10 @ 2:14PM
Islam attracts because it sanctifies power and domination. It is, in other words, the perfect religion for bullies.
But we all know how to handle bullies---knock them down and they tend to run away.
diva4ever| 5.13.10 @ 8:44AM
Jon Stewart and all the rest of the late-night hacks should be very afraid of Mr. Gutfeld. The man is a genius! Unlike Stewart, Gutfeld puts forth his opinion without hiding behind a smug "look, I'm only a comedian" excuse. He's extremely thoughtful and insightful and funny as hell!
Gr0w1er| 5.13.10 @ 12:52PM
Here, here!! Infinitely more watchable than those other fools.
Tim*| 5.13.10 @ 8:49AM
Agendist Muslim Bashing is probably where most Americans fall off the sled.
Interestingly , some of the biggest Victimhhood Card Players are now playing The Anti-Muslim Card.
Kathy| 5.13.10 @ 9:15AM
Oh, really? Who is it that is playing the victom card?
And what do you mean by "agendist Muslim bashing?"
Tim*| 5.13.10 @ 9:27AM
Figure it out & get back to us , Lamb Chop .
Ken (Old Texican)| 5.13.10 @ 11:32AM
Hi Kathy.
Welcome to the conversations here. Just ignore Tim* and the other fringe that show up here and act so smarty-pants.
Tim* likes to use code words.... heh... that only he understands. That way he can set up endless straw men and get people to argue in circles with him.
The best I can figure, Tim* is a semi-paul-bot. (Ron Paul follower) He doesn't seem to hate Jews. He just seems to wish they would go away...from the earth?
We have another Tim..who is often very funny. You will often enjoy his comments.
Most of us have learned to just scroll past Tim* unless we just want to heckle him for a minute....heh.....or all day.
Tim*| 5.14.10 @ 2:54AM
You're a Liar Old Man , and you don't get to " Define " me .
I'm A Registered Republican And Tea Party Rebel .
Now,Get Lost !
Northern Rebel| 5.13.10 @ 9:24AM
Jesse Jackson referred to the jews as having a "gutter religion" but Israeli women seem to be treated quite well.
Muslims don't even qualify as having a religion.
All they are is a fanatical cult of death. They worship death, and the sooner they get there, the better off the rest of the world will be.
Let the killing begin!
Tim*| 5.13.10 @ 9:31AM
Focus on The Terrorists & Not all the other Sand Monkeys , etc.
Cmate| 5.13.10 @ 3:49PM
How do you tell the difference?
Tim*| 5.14.10 @ 2:57AM
The same way you tell other Americans from Tim McVeigh , Sport.
Thom Burke| 5.13.10 @ 11:36AM
As we roll our eyes in disbelief and gratitdute for the parade of incompetent "soldiers of Allah" sent to kill, maim, and terroize us, I am reminded of the great Israeli general, Moshe Dylan, who had defeated a host of enemies simultaneously, surrounded, out manned and out gunned.
When asked if he, too, believed the conventional wisdom that Israel had the best miliary in the world, General Dyan replied, "I'm not really sure. We've only fought Arabs."
SpiralArchitect| 5.13.10 @ 4:03PM
That is, likely, the best thing I have read in a month.
megapotamus | 5.13.10 @ 11:59AM
Gutfeld's resume is more refined and compelling than I had known but good move, Bob, forgiving him. This truly was a youthful indiscretion and he is not running for anything.
I know you do not mean to diminish the dangers of our islamist foes but this Rube Goldberg fizzle should be examined seriously. I am sure it IS being examined seriously by the pros and no doubt the declarations of Jihadi Jihaderson's incompetence are part of a purposeful PR strategy but if all that separates us from immolation on our county squares is ignorance and stupidity then these deficits must be attention paid.
The presence of commercial fireworks is a central laughing point. Bob, not surprisingly, is the first correspondent to mention their would-be role as detonators, not instruments of damage. The propane tanks are highly energetic, there was a deadly home explosion just some weeks ago, but their mundane nature makes them seem relatively innocuous, more so than bricks of C-4 or hot-dog strung dynamite, and again it is claimed that they indicate an amateur operation. The most damning inadequacy is the presence of "the wrong kind" of fertilizer. Anyone who remembers the OKC bombing knows that even the right sort of fertilizer, ammonium nitrate, needs careful stewardship to efficiently explode and Miracl-Gro never will.
The conclusion in some quarters is that this catalog of basic ignorance makes this whole event laughable. The Christmas Bomber likewise aided Jay Leno as much as Barack Obama in manifesting a risible, even pathetic figure. But pathetic is just a half-step from sympathetic and the inventory of wet squibs in the SUV are not so unlikely as the press coverage implies. While poorly realized, what the bomber was attempting was something fairly new; we have Improvised Explosive Devices, pipe bombs count. These are improved by precision milled shaped charges into Explosively Formed Penetrators that may punch a hole even in modern armor. But the Times Square device, though a dud, was an attempt at an Improvised Enhanced Blast Munition.
Also known as thermobaric munitions due to their nasty mechanics, these gadgets that attempt to reproduce the devastating LOW speed but WIDE impact explosions that occur with some regularity in grain silos. The infamous Daisy Cutter is an Enhanced Blast Munition. A bit of googling will inform you of the peculiar and vicious effects of this hellish thing that simultaneously exposes one to a near vacuum, generates tremendous pressure and incidentally consumes all the oxygen for a couple city blocks. An EBM married to an RPG style rocket turned the tide for the Russians in Afghanistan, but then it was turned back when a freight car of the so-called Satan Sticks fell into the hands of the turbaned locals.
What all these treacherous bits of ordinance have in common is that, while a conventional explosive carries all its combustion components within, the EBM uses available atmosphere making it incendiary and far more efficient against soft targets like bunnie rabbits and your Auntie.
For those who can stomach it, the following is the best case scenarious envisioned by allah, according to this puke:
The fertilizer would have been properly mixed with some igniting agent and placed around the propane tanks. The valves on said tanks would have been open, at least partially. The gas would have filled the car mixed with atmospheric oxygen. As far as the press can be told, the detonator was a simple ignition source linked to an alarm clock, improperly set. If it had clicked the vehicle would have had a pretty nasty explosion within, opening it like a tuna can but that is just the beginning. The initial explosion would have ruptured the tanks and also spread the fertilizer preparation in to a cloud. The fireworks were intended to shoot out and detonate this cloud causing a low overpressure wave that would crush folks beneath it like bugs. Those at greater distance would suffer something like a blunt force trauma to their entire bodies, rupturing organs and breaking bones. But this is just the positive blast. The great heat generated by the dust cloud explosion quickly dissipates causing the atmosphere to rush back in to the vacuum. This has effects similar to spacewalking without a space suit. And then there is an incendiary effect from fuels that were not exploded but only ignited.
None of this, thankfully, occured. Much of it is quite unlikely to occur given the materials and assembly and almost certainly, unless this is a simple probing attack, the bomber's knowledge of this came from a very brief exposure to true expertise or serious immersion in faked expertise. Which is more likely or favorable is unclear but what we can know for certain is that these troglodytes are not so idiotic as their hygiene habits imply. If they are experimenting with Improvised Enhanced Blast Munitions this represents a serious and detrimental development. Surely, sometimes things are better left unsaid by the authorities... public panic and all that, but let us who claim and aspire to be the better informed and the candidly serious players in our political gene pool, address these things forthrightly.
Ken (Old Texican)| 5.13.10 @ 12:05PM
Thom, heh.
That was a good one I had not heard.
WAKE UP| 5.13.10 @ 12:52PM
Key sentence 1: "Islamic societies, much as I like their good manners and other fine customs, want the material and benefits painstakingly created in the West, without the sweat. "
Exactly. Every envious non-Westerner I know, and Muslims in particular, think we simply lucked in without sacrifice, everything is there for the taking, and democracy merely a "system" (not a Way Of Life) to be exploited. They don't know there's a quid pro quo. Worse, their smug immersion in their religion prevents them learning this. They don't know any of the genesis of our most cherished principles, and the sacrifice, creativity and inventiveness it took for us be able to live as we now do ; to them it's just a meat market.
Idaho Boy| 5.13.10 @ 2:29PM
But you notice we are always enjoined to understand them in a multi-culti way.
On the other hand their students who go home with US unversity degrees know nothing of the deep roots of our society. They aren't even the least bit curious. People who hear them speaking colloquial American English think they are "westernized". Nothing could be further from the truth.
WalkingHorse| 5.13.10 @ 5:35PM
"..think we simply lucked in without sacrifice, everything is there for the taking, and democracy merely a 'system'"
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"They don't know any of the genesis of our most cherished principles, and the sacrifice, creativity and inventiveness it took for us be able to live as we now do ; to them it's just a meat market. "
Funny, did you notice your comments apply equally well to Progressives?
WAKE UP| 5.13.10 @ 1:03PM
Key sentence 2: "common, ordinary Muslims get much solace and peace in their lives from practicing Islam,"
Of course they do, becase there's so little else they can do without having to THINK - but thinking is the last thing their mullahs want. The mullahs are too busy encouraging them to be more interested in the "next" life than this one, so that they can remain cannon fodder . As George Bernard Shaw said: "Beware the man whose God is in the skies".
We can't talk or educate them out of this, the change has to come from within, a Muslim enlightenment, which ain't going to happen any time soon (it took us a few centuries). Meantime, we're in grave danger from the extreme wing of these atavistic, angry, suppressed dummies, who simply DON'T GET IT.
Conan the Grammarian| 5.13.10 @ 2:43PM
"Beware the man whose God is in the skies". This sounds positively atheistic to me. Even pagan gods lived in the skies, and the Triune Christian God Jehovah is no exception, figuratively, of course. Where does Shaw's god live, in the lake of fire?
C.S. Lewis's God is in the skies. I trust Lewis far more than Shaw.
JamieW| 5.17.10 @ 5:04AM
Shaw WAS an atheist. I thought that was an odd quote here too.
Northern Rebel| 5.13.10 @ 3:22PM
Since we are on the topic of losers, am I politically incorrect to bring up Mexicans?
(Of course)
These people have been walked on for a hundreds of years by their "leaders", yet bend over and grab their ankles, or flee, when the going gets tough.
Name a great patriotic democratic Mexican 'cause I'm having trouble.
These are the same people who let Santa Anna be president 8 different times, and now let drug cartels run their country. Instead of running, do they not care enough about their country, to take it from evil?
I once spent a month and a half in Winters, Texas about 40 miles south of Abilene, installing machinery, and the plant I was at, was populated by 60% (I'm guessing illegal) Mexicans. The foreman was Mexican, and he treated these people like dirt!
They weren't allowed to turn their heads and speak to the person on the assembly line next to them. The ones that spoke english were very friendly, and those that didn't tried to be.
The foreman reminded me of one of the Jews who helped the Nazi's shuttle his fellow countrymen to the showers. These are God loving family oriented people, who have been beaten down by their own leadership for centuries.
No excuses; behaving like a loser, is to become a loser.
I know we can't afford it, but the day may come, mostly because of national security, when we may have to invade Mexico like we did Iraq, and actually do some nation building that may benefit America for a change.
If Chile can establish a superior social security system compared to ours, than surely the Mexican people should be able to root out the evil in their government, if they really wanted to do so.
WAKE UP| 5.13.10 @ 6:17PM
Actually, Conan, I don't trust Shaw personally at all, but what he said still holds. Anybody who holds (for example) that the promise of 72 mythical virgins in some mythical afterlife is more important than what's happening right here, right now, in the only life we actually KNOW, is your enemy and mine. I don't care what people believe, but I'm sure as hell interested in what they DO. And whatever beliefs you may hold (to which you are welcome), they will not save you if you do not act in the NOW.
WAKE UP| 5.13.10 @ 6:21PM
To put it in a nutshell: this is not a battle between belief and non-belief, nor between beliefs, but between civilisation and barbarism. You and I, and Lewis, and even Shaw, are all actually on the same side of that battle.
WAKE UP| 5.13.10 @ 6:28PM
Key sentence 3: "On the other hand their students who go home with US unversity degrees know nothing of the deep roots of our society. They aren't even the least bit curious". Damn right. I've tried and tried but they DON'T WANT TO KNOW. Worse, their benighted religion has taught them that it's not worth knowing. Yet they are still encouraged to dance with the Devil (that's us) in order to exploit us. The hypocrisy on all sides of this is profound.
WAKE UP| 5.13.10 @ 6:33PM
Walking Horse: "Funny, did you notice your comments (on Muslims) apply equally well to Progressives?"
Yep. The collusion of the Western Left (and the silence of Western "feminists") , amounts to treason.
Long Ben| 5.13.10 @ 6:40PM
The next Republican President needs a huge set. A set big and well girded enough to raze the State Department of such ponces , as issue students and other visas to murdering miscreants like the aforementioned whats his name.
Sarbo| 5.15.10 @ 4:00AM
I'm from India and, even as an average salaried citizen, I've learnt a thing or two about terrorists.
Acc to Am Spectator, “Despite instructions from highly experienced terrorists back home, he packed his Nissan … with fertilizer unsuited for bombs.” … “The detonators were insufficiently powerful”. “Finally, … his timers were set wrong. He failed to distinguish AM from PM.” … and, “Oh, yes, and he ran from the SUV, leaving on its key ring the keys to his getaway car and to his apartment.”
This is incompetence of the highest degree. Therefore, it leads me ask something no one else seems to have asked, was this a set-up job? Set up to achieve different objectives? Was the apparent failure actually a success? Was Shahzad merely a patsy in a great game?
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