“Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.”
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Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.
The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.