We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonethe… - Robert D. Kaplan
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonethe…
- Robert D. Kaplan
A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for grant… - Robert D. Kaplan
A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for grant…
It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century. - Robert D. Kaplan
It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.
The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigge… - Robert D. Kaplan
The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigge…
Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charmi… - Robert D. Kaplan
Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charmi…
Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism. - Robert D. Kaplan
Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.
It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism. - Robert D. Kaplan
It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.
Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world,… - Robert D. Kaplan
Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world,…
It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable. - Robert D. Kaplan
It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.
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