All War Aims For Impunity.

There Are A Lot Of Young Canadians Who Want To Be Politically Active At Their College Or Their University Who Can't Go To The Party Convention, Who Can't Take Part In Politics, Because They're Holding Down A Job To Pay Their Tuition. These Are Kids Who Want To Do Public Service, Who Want To Get Involved Politically, But Their Financial Situation Is Precarious.

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.

They [afghans] Understand The Difficult Truth That Their Best Hope Of Freedom Lies In A Temporary Experience Of Imperial Rule.

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.

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.