QUOTE: from the Telegraph:
"In practice, there is no such thing as the "international community", for all its many theoretical manifestations in talking-shops and legal structures. There are power blocs and nation states with varying degrees of power - something which President Bush and Saddam both understand.
There are heads of government who talk the language of idealism but act in response to the imperatives of domestic politics: Gerhard Schröder is driven by opinion polls more than an affinity with the moral high ground. Jacques Chirac will, in the end, do what he thinks will strengthen his rapport with the French people - and, more particularly, with French businessmen. Behind the mask of high principle, realpolitik still dictates European strategy."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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