I don't see lethality as the problem. I mean, the lethality of US forces is quite remarkable.
Europe's biggest problem is its success.
Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.
Starting from the ruins of the Second World War, we - all Europeans said, after centuries of fighting each other, we're going to build permanent arrangements in which peace between European countries is secured, freedom is secured, and growing prosperity. And that's what we have done over the last 70 years.
God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after us, and whose names are already written in the book of creation, as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do or neglect, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or deprive them of benefits which it was in our power to bequeath.
Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.
I'm generally never at a lack for words, but it's indescribable how poor the response was from our own government officials,. . . We could have coffee for three hours and never get through all the horrors I've seen. Where was the help when we needed it?
I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.