The 'realist' conception of ...

The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.
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 Robert McNamara

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The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight a limited war, to go to war without the necessity of arousing the public ire.
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 Robert McNamara
There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be supported by a sufficient number to permit the nation to achieve a better life for all.
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 Robert McNamara
It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
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 Robert McNamara
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
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 Robert McNamara
Engagement is the conscious inhabitation of your body and mind. Practice is happening when your open awareness is moving with, in and through your embodied activity. Intrinsic to practice is your conscious participation with your life. Engagement is the conduction of your free and open awareness through your activities, whatever they may be.
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 Robert McNamara