Sublime

The balance of powers has become unhinged.

a state managed by experts dedicated to solutions without an ideology would do for the country what it did for the war: it would breed success. But of course, this became a principle, the principle became a belief, and the belief became an ideology. The ideology created a class who felt entitled to govern and who were believed to be suitable to gov

Although all of these actions constitute war crimes and violations of international law, the international community—and especially the United Nations—has repeatedly rewarded Palestinian terrorism by according to the PLO far greater recognition than that accorded to other stateless groups that have not resorted to global terrorism.

challenges us to rethink the classic bright-line distinction between combatants and noncombatants. This line, which lies at the core of the international law of war, has been exploited in the interest of terrorism.

The Democrats, in the wake of the relentless sustained attacks on Truman and Acheson over their policies in Asia, came to believe that they had lost the White House when they lost China. Long after McCarthy himself was gone, the fear of being accused of being soft on Communism lingered among the Democratic leaders. The Republicans had, of course, o

The federal government has become the domain of hedgehogs, urgently needed people but profoundly insufficient. It is wisdom that is lacking, and there is no civil service code for the wise.

Yet another tactic was creating, then deliberately exacerbating and exploiting, the refugee crisis.

As Vivienne Shue points out, while a state must monopolize coercion to be successful, "constant reliance upon coercion to ensure popular compliance is not only an inefficient and expensive strategy, but probably ultimately a self-defeating one" (Shue 1991:218).