So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America. – Barack Obama
There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua? – Bianca Jagger
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. – Max Gluckman, Politics, Law and Ritual, 1965
