Robert Kagan Quotes
Robert Kagan delivers blunt, practical advice for tackling problems with the right mindset.
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If you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail.
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International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case, the domination of liberal principles of economics, domestic politics, and international relations over other, nonliberal principles. It will last only as long as those who imposed it retain the capacity to defend it.
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Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.
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The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.
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If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.
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Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty.
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Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice.
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Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.
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It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.
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I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.
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Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards.
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I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.
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When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.