The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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