States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
The state security bodies should not be seen as an institution that works against society and the state; one needs to understand what makes them work against their own people.
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
States are not moral agents.
A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting.