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we’ve missed?” 
                     “I beg your pardon, Mr. President,” said Arcadia.  “Please remember that you’re from Branson, and until you became President, you were just Uncle Walt to me.  I didn’t mean to question the way you’re doing your job.  As far as I’m concerned you’ve done a wonderful job.”
                  Jacob sat back in his chair and lit his pipe.  He knew his daughter kept up to date on current events from all over the world and frequently had insights that others missed.  He was interested in the analysis that Arcadia seemed about to deliver to the President.
                  “Under your leadership,” began Arcadia, “after you restored a hollowed out military, and used it with overwhelming public support to lead the world in destroying the abomination that was ISIS, you began the bigger job of putting our country back on a paying basis.  You used the advantage of the advanced students coming out of the new school system and installing them in critical places within the government.  You now have the most efficient bureaucracy in the world.  From top to bottom, you have the best first team of administrators and a bench of support people that is deep and talented.”
                  “Your emphasis has been on two main fronts.  First, you greatly expanded the Peace Corps and put workers into the field around the world to provide aid and assistance to third world countries.  Their expertise in farming, water systems, construction, and administration made a big difference for millions of people.  Most countries welcome the aid.”
                  “Moreover, your economic policies have set our economy on fire.  Just a few years ago, the labor participation rate was 62 percent, the lowest ever.  Now it’s risen to over 90 percent. The U.S. is producing and exporting a wide range of new products and innovations throughout the world.  Our exports are ten times our imports and the money flowing in has gone a long way to reduce our Federal deficit. American products are so well built and turned out by automated systems they undercut the marketplace.  It gives the country a competitive advantage over countries, like China, who still pay their workers a fraction of what Americans receive.” 
    The problem with providing all these services, products, and aid, is that a lot of the Americans who deliver them are motivated by their beliefs of service to God and seeking to do His will.  This makes them natural missionaries and they aren’t hesitant to share the “Good News” with people.  Wherever the work of Americans and American companies overlap with countries, with substantial Muslim populations, there are problems.  A tragically large number of Americans have died, for no other reason than the fact they existed as Christians.”
                  “Whenever the incidents are more than isolated and American lives and property destroyed, you have reluctantly told the country receiving the aid, that the United States would simply withdraw its people and services.  Very often, the leadership of that country, particularly the poor third world nations sided with us to keep the vital aid flowing.  This has infuriated the Muslim leaders who keep up a steady rant at every mosque, telling their faithful that the hideous Christians are infidels who do not follow the truth faith of Allah, and should all be killed immediately.  And the worst and most dangerous of the bunch are the Iranians.
                  There was a long pause on the phone.  Jacob spoke up, “Still with us Walt?”
                  “Yes, unfortunately Arcadia is right.  We have a very sophisticated intelligence system that monitors cell phone, email, and radio chatter on a global basis.  We get regular reports for our agents all the time; the picture that’s emerging is a little scary.  We’ve increased