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The history of Chechnya is one of imperialism gone terribly wrong. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Chechens were among the few peoples to fend off Mongol conquerors, but at a terrible cost. Turks, Persians, and Russians sought to seize Chechnya, and it was finally absorbed into the Russian Empire in 1859.Collection: Stephen
Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule.Collection: Stephen
Chechens are Muslim, and some share the belief that the West is engaged in a global campaign against Islam.Collection: Stephen
If women are being oppressed in Egypt or children are being forced to join armies in the Congo, for example, it is not only acceptable but wonderful for Americans to be concerned, outraged, and active.Collection: Stephen
It is truly vital for the United States to assure that it is not attacked with weapons of mass destruction; to prevent wars in other countries from spreading onto American soil; and to maintain access to global sea lanes on which our economy depends. Beyond that, there is little or nothing in the world that should draw the United States to war.Collection: Stephen
Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa Cather, as well as an investor said to be the world's second richest man, Warren Buffett.Collection: Stephen
Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907, fresh out of Princeton, Baskerville went to Iran as a schoolteacher. He found himself in the midst of a revolution against tyranny, and was carried away with passion for the democratic cause.Collection: Stephen
Foreign interventions always end badly.Collection: Stephen
Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so.Collection: Stephen
The dramatic rise of Turkey in the councils of world power was one of the main geopolitical developments of 2010.Collection: Stephen
One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.Collection: Stephen
Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept.Collection: Stephen
Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military interventions around the world? Want to undermine governments that are raising their people up from poverty because they don't conform to the tastes of Upper West Side intellectuals? Use human rights as your excuse!Collection: Stephen
For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To defend the rights of those who have none was the reason I became a journalist in the first place. Now, I see the human rights movement as opposing human rights.Collection: Stephen
Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them.Collection: Stephen
Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with the defeated genocide army to campaign freely for power.Collection: Stephen
Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war against America.Collection: Stephen
Saudi Arabia supplies much oil to the U.S. And it is the world's largest consumer of American weaponry.Collection: Stephen
Weapons systems the U.S. sold to the Shah of Iran wound up in the hands of Islamic militants who seized power there in 1979; a comparable scenario in Saudi Arabia is hardly impossible.Collection: Stephen
Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.Collection: Stephen
Castro has lived almost his entire life as a clandestine revolutionary. To such figures, truth is always malleable, always subservient to political goals.Collection: Stephen
Was Castro sincere when, during his guerrilla war, he swore that he was not a Communist? If so, when did he change, and why? Looking back, does he believe he might have chosen a better course?Collection: Stephen
Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law. Subversives who shape world events by covert action and violence work in shadows and detest the light of day.Collection: Stephen
For decades, Turkey was widely viewed as a reliable NATO ally: prickly at times, but safely in America's corner.Collection: Stephen
Turkey and Brazil, though half a world apart geographically, have much in common. Both are large countries that spent long years under military dominance, but have broken with that history and made decisive steps towards full democracy.Collection: Stephen
The key to Turkey's success has been its ability to reinvent itself as times change.Collection: Stephen
In his tub-thumping speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Romney sounded like the hedge-fund tycoon he is.Collection: Stephen
Romney is a classic case of re-invention. As governor of Massachusetts, he supported government-sponsored healthcare, was sympathetic to gay rights, and opposed harsh restrictions on abortion. After measuring the difference between the Massachusetts electorate and the national one to which he must now appeal, he has reversed those positions.Collection: Stephen
Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.Collection: Stephen
When I'm writing a song, I try to be the character.Collection: Stephen
Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel you're making art.Collection: Stephen
If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.Collection: Stephen
I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are.Collection: Stephen
I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.Collection: Stephen
I don't find my life that interesting. The shows, maybe. But not me.Collection: Stephen
I have, by nature, an analytical mind.Collection: Stephen
Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.Collection: Stephen
I certainly wanted my name in lights. I wanted my name on a marquee. I wanted recognition on Broadway.Collection: Stephen
I'm an atheist.Collection: Stephen
I have wondered about time all my life.Collection: Stephen
The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.Collection: Stephen
What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.Collection: Stephen
Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.Collection: Stephen
For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.Collection: Stephen
The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.Collection: Stephen
When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won't have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.Collection: Stephen
If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.Collection: Stephen
God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.Collection: Stephen
Theology is unnecessary.Collection: Stephen
Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.Collection: Stephen