George Friedman - The Next Decade (2010)

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The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

George Friedman

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

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Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

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The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

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Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.

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