I think the level of casualties is secondary. . . [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American … - Michael A. Ledeen

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I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

Michael A. Ledeen

I think the level of casualties is secondary. . . [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we are a warlike people and that we love war. . . What we hate is not casualties but losing.

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Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

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In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to 'enter into evil. ' This is the chilling insight that has made Machiavelli so feared, admired, and challenging. It is why we are drawn to him still.

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Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is the road to Greatness.

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Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ. '

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They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.

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