For interests that are vital to the U. S. - that is, essential for our survival and wellbeing … - Graham T. Allison

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Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

Graham T. Allison

For interests that are vital to the U. S. - that is, essential for our survival and wellbeing - the U. S. should be prepared to use military force - including unilaterally, if necessary.

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When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U. S. inevitably had a serious problem about an encore: what now for our place in the world?

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There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.

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Terrorism is really the only existential threat to America as we know it - as a free country that plays a leading role in the world.

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The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring that mean that the world is just extremely complicated - lots of different and competing stories and strands; the continuing reality of megaterrorism; and the dysfunctionality of our politics that has neglected the foundations of the U. S. role in the world; have altogether left us somewhat confused.

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