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Robert Kagan

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American historian (born 1958)

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  • Rebellion
  • Has Obama Made the World a More Dangerous Place?
  • El retorno de la historia y el fin de los sueños
  • Everything Is at Stake
  • Ghost at the Feast

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  • When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail.
  • The force de frappe was little more than symbolism; it relieved neither France nor Europe from strategic dependence on the United States...
  • The vast majority of Europeans always believed that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was more tolerable than the risk of removing him. But Americans, being stronger, developed a lower threshold of tolerance for Saddam and his weapons of mass destruction.
  • The United States was losing interest in preserving European security, but at the same time it was hostile to European aspirations to take on the task themselves. Europeans complained about American perfidy, and Americans complained about European weakness and ingratitude.
  • Americans officials have found it hard to believe, but leading officials and politicians in Europe really have worried more about how the United States might handle or mishandle the problem on Iraq — by undertaking unilateral and extralegal military action — than they have ever worried about Iraq itself and Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
  • When President Dwight Eisenhower undermined and humiliated Britain and France at Suez in 1956, it was only the most blatant of many American efforts to cut Europe down to size and reduce its already weakening global influence.

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Robert Kagan
date of birth
1958-09-26
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Robert Kagan
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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