Leon Panetta quote ✍️

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I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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