President Karzai, as well as the other candidates, I think have shown that they have the interest of the Afghan people at heart, that this is a reflection of a commitment to rule of law, and an insistence that the Afghan people's will should be done.

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Instead, the current law is an appropriate and necessary reflection of the realities of human nature.

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Third, the Republicans are insisting that spending should be measured from a current law baseline that is not an accurate reflection of reality.

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But Mr Friedman has written about the law less as a collection of rules and judgments, and more as a reflection of powerful social forces shaping all aspects of American life.

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