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1 " Diplomacy without politics is ultimately impotent. "
― Max Hastings , The Battle for the Falklands
2 " War is full of clichés, because only clichés can match the drama of the moment. "
3 " Nations are fortunate to have such leaders in time of conflict, but there are also advantages in leaders who avoid conflict in the first place. "
4 " Arguments for war based on the principle of 'setting the world an example' are always dangerous. They can be used to justify quite disproportionate responses, as occurred in South-east Asia in the 1960s and 1970s. They tend to be selective: why for instance did Britain not use force in 1965 to uphold the concept of majority self-determination in Rhodesia? "
