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...idea to repeat a line from the 19th century French anarchist thinker Pierre-Joseph Prou-dhon: ?The fecundity of the unexpected far exceeds the prudence of statesmen.? America, in the spasms of a few hours, became a changed country. It turned the corner, at last, out of the 1990s. The menu of American priorities was rearranged. The presidency of George W. Bush begins now. What seemed important a few days ago (in the media, at least) became instantly trivial. If Gary Condit is mentioned once in the next six months on cable television, I will be astonished...
...idea to repeat a line from the 19th century French anarchist thinker Pierre-Joseph Prou-dhon: "The fecundity of the unexpected far exceeds the prudence of statesmen." America, in the spasms of a few hours, became a changed country. It turned the corner, at last, out of the 1990s. The menu of American priorities was rearranged. The presidency of George W. Bush begins now. What seemed important a few days ago (in the media, at least) became instantly trivial. If Gary Condit is mentioned once in the next six months on cable television, I will be astonished...
...because it isn't Yale." (Toor, a Yale alum, writes of her own college years: "While I was there I never used the words 'Yale' and 'happy' in the same sentence.") "I was personally most turned off," she confides of her first year on the job, "by the Junior Statesmen of America and by kids who started investment clubs at their schools." Nor did she look kindly on applications that seemed too polished, sensing the handiwork of a pricey college consultant...
...would rejoice to see Milosevic pay for his crimes. But what price justice? Judges may never ask themselves that question. Statesmen must always. And it is statesmen, specifically American statesmen wielding American power, who made the fateful calls that sealed Milosevic's future and may now be risking Serbia...
...phrase sums up his approach to these issues. Kissinger steadfastly refuses to enter into the question of whether these principles are important enough to ever outrank geopolitics, instead presenting them as esoteric details imposed on statesmen by an ignorant public. He never enters into the question of where national interest comes from and dodges the argument that it is these domestic preferences that gives statesmen and geopolitics its direction...