For most Americans. this is a distant war in an obscure land about issues that do not directly affect our interests. All that may be true. And. yet. we could not ignore it. For the past 4 years. we have feared. above all. that it would spread and embroil the great powers. particularly the United States and Russia. on opposite sides of a war neither of us wanted. We have felt deep compassion and remorse as this war. like all wars. took its greatest toll on the innocents: in refugees driven from their lands. in homes and towns and villages destroyed. in a generation of children. Mr. President. whose lives have been shattered.
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