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could eventually require the United States
If we leave and Iraq descends into chaos, the long-range consequences could eventually require the United States to return. 2.
— from The Iraq Study Group Report by Iraq Study Group (U.S.)

can ever restore the United States
Nothing in human power can ever restore the United States to the position it occupied the day before Congress plunged us into the war with Spain, or enable us to escape what that war entailed.
— from Problems of Expansion As Considered in Papers and Addresses by Whitelaw Reid

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