American - Journalist | June 23, 1952 -
The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.
Robert D. Kaplan
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When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down, it always comes down to one person in the field giving specialized training to somebody else in the field.
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Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.
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The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.
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Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.
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What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.
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Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.
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