Voice of the Day: Oscar Arias Sanchez
07-10-2009
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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