Discussion: Words That Belonged In Obama’s West Point Speech

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Thucydides! Nice

Absolutely! Commerce so binds the great powers together today, this 14th year of a new century, that it would be the height of folly – a Great Illusion, one might say – to fear that the nations might choose to throw away their prosperity and return to primitive warmaking.

-Norm A.

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It may be foolishness for a nation to cut off its nose to spite its face, but that doesn’t mean that others should forgo their swords.