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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.

~Michael Ignatieff

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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.

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All war aims for impunity.

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We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

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There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem.

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I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.

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I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

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For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble.

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Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state.

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Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Politician

Born: May 12th, 1947

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