# Rudy Giuliani running for president, 2008

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> Accountable government takes responsibility for its people, provides sufficient healthcare, education and better levels of human rights. The next stage is a **participatory element** but that might take _one or two generations_.’
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> So is this part of the modern US role in the Middle East: the promotion of accountable government and democracy?
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> ‘The US role in the region is precisely that. This is what America stands for. We will only act by military means if under **grave threat or in self-defense** , and hopefully that means very rarely.’

Oh dear lord.

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