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Michael Ignatieff Quotes
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Type: Politician Quotes Category: Canadian Politician Quotes Date of Birth: May 12, 1947 Nationality: Canadian Find on Amazon: Michael Ignatieff Related Authors: Stephen Harper Lester B. Pearson Stockwell Day Alex Campbell Tim Murphy Paul Martin Elizabeth Joan Smith |
All war aims for impunity.
Michael Ignatieff How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual? Michael Ignatieff I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism. Michael Ignatieff I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke. Michael Ignatieff 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. Michael Ignatieff If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you don't. Michael Ignatieff 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. Michael Ignatieff It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves. Michael Ignatieff 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. Michael Ignatieff Nationalism could almost be defined as intense national feeling for a country that does not yet exist, or for someone else's country. Michael Ignatieff Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. Michael Ignatieff 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. Michael Ignatieff 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. Michael Ignatieff There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. Michael Ignatieff There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers. Michael Ignatieff There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem. Michael Ignatieff There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism. Michael Ignatieff We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it. Michael Ignatieff We're going out to rescue people who are being slaughtered or massacred, but we're going to do it at zero personal cost to ourselves. Michael Ignatieff What we want is to become masters in our own house. Michael Ignatieff 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. Michael Ignatieff |
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