You can't spend your whole life teaching people about public service without finally thinking that you should put your money where your mouth is.
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a theater of displacement, in which political energies that might otherwise have been expended in defending multiethnic society at home were directed instead at defending mythic multiculturalism far away. Bosnia became the latest bel espoir of a generation that had tried ecology, socialism, and civil rights only to watch all these lose their romantic momentum.Michael Ignatieff
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.
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There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
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Nationalism could almost be defined as intense national feeling for a country that does not yet exist, or for someone else's country.
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We're going out to rescue people who are being slaughtered or massacred, but we're going to do it at zero personal cost to ourselves.
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