American - Diplomat | July 28, 1951 - 2
There is no getting around the reality that the second Iraq war was a war of choice; had it been carried out differently, it still would have been an expensive choice and almost certainly a bad one.
Richard N. Haass
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Terrorism is a decentralized phenomenon - in its funding, planning, and execution.
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Generically, wars in necessity are wars where, I think, the vital interest of the nation are at stake, in which there are no viable alternatives to the use of force.
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For President Bush, the first, the 41st president, George Herbert Walker Bush, I spent all 4 years of his presidency on the staff for the National Security Council.
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The rise of populism is in part a response to stagnating incomes and job loss, owing mostly to new technologies but widely attributed to imports and immigrants.
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Americans were happy to buy vast quantities of relatively inexpensive Chinese manufactured goods, demand for which provided jobs for the tens of millions of Chinese who moved from poor agricultural areas to new or rapidly expanding cities.
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The abolition of the presidential term limit and President Xi Jinping's concentration of power have come as an unwelcome surprise to many.
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The U.S. does not want to live under the shadow of a North Korea that possesses long-range missiles capable of delivering nuclear payloads to American cities. At the same time, the U.S. has no appetite for a war that would prove costly by every measure.
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Trump's foreign policy is not so much immoral as it is amoral.
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It is important to signal that opposition to the use of any weapon of mass destruction is both deep and broad.
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The United States, working closely with the United Kingdom and others, established the liberal world order in the wake of World War II. The goal was to ensure that the conditions that had led to two world wars in 30 years would never again arise.
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The vote in the United Kingdom in favor of leaving the E.U. attested to the loss of elite influence.
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