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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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