“Has not the time come to change our strategy?-What I think the rest of the world is waiting for – indeed hoping for – is some positive sign that the civilised powers are going to uphold the standards of international behaviour set by their forbears; that they are going to do so in the most systematic, relentless and comprehensive manner, and if necessary – while they still possess it – with overwhelming force. All over our tormented planet, there are millions of decent, peaceable and intelligent men and women of all religions, complexions, and races, who are praying that the resources of civilisation are not, indeed, exhausted – and that the Brezhnevs and the Amins, the Ghadaffis-and the Maos, the Arafats and the O-Sadists will not be allowed to take over the earth.” – Paul Johnson, quoted in Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s “A Dangerous Place,” his memoir about the United Nations.
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