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Second, because we often need such dictators to win the larger struggle against a global threat to liberty--Nazism, communism, Islamic radicalism. Did we not, after all, join with Stalin, one of the great monsters of the 20th century, in order to defeat Hitler? Does anyone doubt not just the necessity but the morality of that alliance? It is the principle of the lesser evil. As Churchill once famously said, "If I were told that the devil were on poorer terms with Hitler, I should find myself making an alliance with hell...
...destructive force in some ways more dangerous than even the last two totalitarian powers Americans were called on to defeat. This enemy refuses to fight with honor; it hides and disappears and re-emerges whenever its purposes are served; it may soon have access to weapons that Hitler and Stalin only dreamed of. But it cannot be defeated the way Nazi Germany and Communist Russia were defeated because it is more like a virus than a host, infecting and capturing nation-states, like Afghanistan, and then moving on to others. So we will have to act to pre-empt...
...what was ending was not history itself but the history of the nation-state--a constitutional order characterized by governments that promised to better the material well-being of a historically defined people. F.D.R., Stalin and Hitler each promised this, even if they had radically different notions of what constituted a nation and how to achieve the objective. Yet within the triumph of the parliamentary nation-state lay the seeds of its eventual demise. A universal system of human rights defied its sovereignty and undermined its ability to control its citizens. An international system of trade and finance removed...
...Swiss history can attest, international public pressure?especially when it relates to moral issues?can be highly effective in lifting banking secrecy. A long-standing tradition dating back to the Middle Ages, secrecy was codified into Swiss law in 1934, just as Hitler was consolidating his power in Germany, Stalin was purging his opponents in the Soviet Union and a clenched fistful of dictators were strutting around other European countries. By law, bankers who breach client confidentiality today face up to six months in jail and a fine...
...others. Today, the U.S. is more prone to rend than to mend the international fabric. But why should Gulliver bear the ropes? Easy. Better to contain yourself than to have others gang up on you. This has been the fate of all hegemonic powers from Napoleon's France to Stalin's Russia. Gulliver did well for himself by doing good for others. He got into trouble when he forgot etiquette and emptied his bladder on the royal palace of the Lilliputians...