If I Am Not Elected, I Imagine

The Only Cure For Nihilism Is For Liberal Democratic Societies - Their Electorates, Their Judiciary, And Their Political Leadership- To Insist That Force Is Legitimate Only To The Degree That It Serves Defensible Poltical Goals. Thus Implies A Constant Exercise Of Due Diligence.

All War Aims For Impunity.

An Intellectual May Be Interested In Ideas And Policies For Their Own Sake, But A Politician's Interest Is Exclusively In The Question Of Whether An Idea's Time Has Come.

Mr. Kaplan Is The First Traveler To Take Us On A Journey To The Jagged Places Where These Tectonic Plates Meet, And His Argument--that Our Future Is Being Shaped Far Away 'at The Ends Of The Earth'--makes His Travelogue Pertinent And Compelling Reading.

The Disagreeable Reality For Those Who Believe In Human Rights Is That There Are Some Occasions-and Iraq May Be One Of Them-when War Is The Only Real Remedy For Regimes That Live By Terror.