Mr. SHURKIN: The daughter is Allison, who was also very helpful with the book.

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The book is also full of statistics and references (via footnotes), and this I found very helpful.

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Over the long term, it has the opportunity, by the way, also to change the strategic landscape in the Middle East in a way that would be very helpful.

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