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- Nov 07, 2020
Civil Wars Quotes
On why nations turn against themselves.
One quote here draws a careful distinction, arguing war isn't always wrong when it stops a dictator or an invader, but that modern civil wars raise very different, harder questions. Another warns that a great power involving itself in ethnic or religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster — a caution about foreign policy and Attitude toward intervention.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
- Excluded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020