"I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism."
"Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted."
"There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism."
"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."
"It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves."
"What we want is to become masters in our own house."
"There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries."
"There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers."
"How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?"
"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."
"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."
"All war aims for impunity."
"We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it."
"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."
"I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke."
"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."
"For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble."
"Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state."
"Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics."
"America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order."
"Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application."
"After spending the 1980s building up Saddam's Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, U.S. policy abruptly reversed course with his invasion of Kuwait and has since tried to cut him down to size. The policy is called 'containment,' but the question is, containment of what?"
"America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley Clark returned home angry and ashamed at their defeat and rebuilt all-volunteer, professional armed forces from the ground up."
"Desert Storm was seen by the military establishment and by some politicians as avenging Vietnam, but it left behind dangerous illusions. The victory was so decisive, and information about it so carefully managed, that the American public was never clearly informed that it was purchased at the price of approximately 100,000 Iraqi lives."
"Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare."
