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"Military intervention for reasons of ideology or nation building is not an Eisenhower or Nixon or Reagan tradition. It is not a Republican tradition. It is a Bush II-neocon deformity, an aberration that proved disastrous for the United States and the Middle East."
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"There is no reason why the project should not go easily and smoothly except for the innate perversity of circumstances."
— Jack Vance
Literature1916–2013
"Logic always seems to be telling us, in language quite unnecessarily technical, what we understood much better before it was explained."
— Arthur Balfour
Politics1687–1746