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recent bookmarks from jerrykingAll he is saying is give war a chance: Democracy and world peace are really not such great ideas. Just ask author Robert Kaplan2012-07-02T17:09:45+00:00
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wcW6cQpVKXsS2pO_yQ3ClWnyoC9fqK-DQ85sZ1guJgw/edit
jerryking>easy truth<<. Tough truths, on the other hand, are things like when and where you intervene and under what circumstances.[i.e. = "hard questions"/"hard truths"]
"So, I would say Canada needs to go on fast forward to a Global Constabulary Force. NATO, with all its problems, worked well in Kosovo and Bosnia. So, we [i.e., Canada] will create an out-of-area military branch of NATO with some non-European members -- such as Japan, Australia, India, Brazil -- to form the core of the GCF." Then "we'll have a wider range of options during the next Rwanda, or next time something happens in a place with no strategic interest to anyone but where there's an overwhelming sense that we should 'do something.' But just talking about human security ... The minute you have something that everyone agrees with [i.e. = "over-consensus"] you know it's useless."
A lesson from the master himself.
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