But sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.

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We were deep into the Great Recession, more businesses than not were scrambling to survive in the face of vastly changed fortunes, and it was more difficult than ever before to disabuse non-marketing senior management of their conviction that marketing is a cost center, not an investment.

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There should be no doubt, however: The repercussions of the Obama administration losing Iraq will cost us dearly in the future as adherents to Shariah around the world are reinforced in their conviction of that our defeat and submission is preordained.

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