“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51
“Western governments don’t have to do much to make the world a better place — in fact, all they have to do is stop what they’re doing.”
I wonder why though one has to conclude an article with an indirect appeal to those very same regimes they condemn.
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