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From Quotes by Michael Ignatieff
- In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the…
- America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley Clark…
- Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force…
- The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we regard…
- Ultimate authority in a global system remains with sovereigns. Governments will not have it any other way: politicians face instant rejection from their electorate if…
- 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…
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