In a fateful confrontation, Isaac kills one of the vagrants to save his friend.

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Nevertheless, Shaw says the quartet had a fateful confrontation in February of 2000.

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In fact, the seminal moment in the book involves (coincidentally enough) another confrontation with McChrystal and the top military brass during the run-up to the president's fateful decision to approve a troop surge in Afghanistan.

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