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later with Al Arabiya television in Dubai. Affirming that the United
States could be an honest broker in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
he said: "We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.
But if you look at the track record, as you say, America was not born
as a colonial power."
The affirmation of democracy requires the denial of colonialism,
but denying it does not make it go away.