Jul 10, 2009
More combat planes, missiles and soldiers won't provide additional bread for our families, desks for our schools or medicine for our clinics. All they can do is destabilize a region that continues to view armed forces as the final arbiter of social conflicts.
- Oscar Arias Sanchez,
president of Costa Rica, from his Washington Post op-ed on July 9, 2009.
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