Michael Ignatieff

(14 votes)   My chief concern about the way we're going is that new technology, precision weapons technology, appears to be giving us a new moral alibi.

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(10 votes)   If you say that we're going to intervene to stop ethnic cleansing but we're only going to do it at 15,000 feet, you can't actually do it.

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(9 votes)   There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

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(17 votes)   We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

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(16 votes)   I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

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(14 votes)   I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.

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(12 votes)   I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

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(12 votes)   Nationalism could almost be defined as intense national feeling for a country that does not yet exist, or for someone else's country.

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(11 votes)   All war aims for impunity.

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(11 votes)   Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

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(11 votes)   Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.

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(10 votes)   How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

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(10 votes)   The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.

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(10 votes)   There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

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(10 votes)   There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

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