These choices by small countries are vital for them, but may be more momentous than commonly understood for others as well, including the major powers, who presumptuously believe they are in control of events.
William Pfaff
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.
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The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. The past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.
force nations life history
A great nation's foreign policy involves power, money, trade, oil and arms, but it proeeds from ideas.
nations money power
The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.
circumstances products thetimes time war
The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.
truth history
choice power
Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.
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Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.
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Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.
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