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When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.
Robert Kagan / Historian
Hammers
Looks
Nails
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I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.
Robert Kagan / Historian
Optimistic
Democracy
Obstacles
Russia
Taken
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If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.
Robert Kagan / Historian
Caterpillars
Land
Wings
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Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.
Robert Kagan / Historian
Baseball
Failing
Hitting
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Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.
Robert Kagan / Historian
Agree
Littles
Mars
Venus
Europeans
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The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.
Robert Kagan / Historian
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Eternal
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Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty.
Robert Kagan / Historian
Administration
Mass Destruction
Wmds In Iraq
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Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice.
Robert Kagan / Historian
Advice
Endorse
No Choice
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I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.
Robert Kagan / Historian
Believe
Competition
Conflict
Geopolitical
Stem
Believe I Believe True
Believe I Believe Competition
Conflicts
Powers
Rarely
Rivalries
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It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.
Robert Kagan / Historian
Age
Known
Taught
Life Age My Life
All My Life
Almost All
Earliest
The One Thing
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Britain has taken itself out as a major player in the international system, at least for a while, with the kind of cuts that they've made in their national security budget.
Robert Kagan / Historian
Britain
International
National Security
Budget
Cuts
National System
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Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.
Robert Kagan / Historian
Criteria
Dominance
Military
Military Power
Numbers
Player
Remains
Challenging
Cultural
Increasingly
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When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.
Robert Kagan / Historian
Challenges
Defense
Defining
Europe
Implementing
Priorities
Setting
United States
Determining
Foreign
National
Parted
Policies
Threats
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When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails. But nations without great military power face the opposite danger: When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like nails.
Robert Kagan / Historian
Military
Nails
Opposites
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I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.
Robert Kagan / Historian
Believe
Foreign Policy
Luxury
Military
Military Force
Policy
Thinking
Believe World Better
Although
Avoid
Believe Better World
Foreign
World Believe Better
Important Tool
Provide
Tool
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In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides the overall security that allows Europe to live in a system where military power is not a major issue.
Robert Kagan / Historian
Opportunity
Military
Military Power
Paradise
Views
Enter
Overall
Provides
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Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards.
Robert Kagan / Historian
Backwards
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Western
Western Europe
World View
World View New
Attitudes
Notice
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International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case, the domination of liberal free market principles of economics, democratic principles of politics, and a peaceful international system over other visions that other nations and peoples may have. It will last only as long as those who favor it retain the capacity to defend it.
Robert Kagan / Historian
Long
Order
Vision
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