The Wars Of The Future Will Be

Patriotism Is Strong Nationalistic Feeling For A Country Whose Borders And Whose Legitimacy And Whose Ethnic Composition Is Taken For Granted.

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.

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.

You're Never Really Out Of Politics.

One Of The Biggest Divides In Canada - I Said It In 2006, And I Said It Right Through My Political Career - Is Urban-rural. Lots Of Parts Of This Country Feel Entirely Left Behind. And They're Mobilized By, You Know, The Gun Control Issue.