All war aims for impunity.
From Michael Ignatieff
There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.
What we want is to become masters in our own house.
Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank force down the throats of developing countries.
'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill.
There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.
Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.
The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.
We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.
Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.
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