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As Hannah Arendt
famously
pointed out, people like Adolf Eichmann were plentiful and “neither perverted nor sadistic”; rather, “they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal.”
Trump, to Jerusalem and BackTEL AVIV – US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
famously
singled out Israel as a country whose entire foreign policy is actually domestic.
Leadership involves the use of power, and, as Lord Acton
famously
warned, power corrupts.
That might seem like a high bar, given that the title is usually associated with Neville Chamberlain, who
famously
tried to appease Adolf Hitler.
With the instruments of humanity’s collective suicide yet to be invented, war could still be viewed, as the Prussian strategist Carl von Clausewitz
famously
put it, as “the continuation of politics by other means.”
Indeed, the question has been asked at least since May 2013, when then-Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke
famously
announced that quantitative easing would be “tapered” later that year, causing long-term US interest rates to rise and prompting a reversal of capital flows to emerging markets.
As such, he might be compared to Pyotr Stolypin, another conservative prime minister who
famously
asked for 20 years of peace and quiet – mostly from liberals and revolutionaries – to transform Russia.
As Oliver Wendell Holmes
famously
put it in a 1919 US Supreme Court decision, "Even the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater and causing a panic."
Winston Churchill once
famously
said of America that you can count on it to do the right thing once it has exhausted all other alternatives.
Policy mistakes ranging from tax hikes to poor central-bank decisions to a global wave of protectionism (most
famously
America’s Smoot-Hawley tariff) turned a deep recession into the Great Depression.
It did this most
famously
in the case of smallpox, where the WHO led the successful campaign on global eradication of that long-dread disease.
The idea of such a tax was first floated in the 1970’s by James Tobin, the Nobel laureate economist, who
famously
called for “throwing some sand in the wheels of international finance.”
Although the IPCC is not perfect – it
famously
predicted that all Himalayan glaciers would be gone in 2035, when the more likely year is 2350 – its many experts generally give us the best information on the fractious issue of global warming.
The satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer
famously
warned listeners that if they visit an American city: “Just two things of which you must beware/ Don’t drink the water and don’t breathe the air.”
Former US President George W. Bush
famously
did not “do nuance.”
Margaret Thatcher, as Education Secretary in 1973,
famously
asserted that the United Kingdom would not have a woman prime minister in her lifetime.
After all, as Winston Churchill
famously
observed, “jaw-jaw” is better than “war-war”.
Now, Merkel has had the misfortune of inheriting an incoherent project (a currency union without fiscal and political union) – a situation that demands some type of vision from a politician
famously
good at everything but articulating one.
She
famously
asserted that she would never hand that control away, and the Bank of England was not set free until 1997, when Tony Blair’s first Labour government was elected.
It may in the near future no longer be seen as the anchor of the international monetary system, bringing to an end to what Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
famously
called the “exorbitant privilege” enjoyed by the US as a result of the dollar’s centrality in international trade.
Are
famously
liberal Hollywood film directors spending too much time going to anti-globalization rallies?
John Maynard Keynes
famously
said: “I would rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.”
In this regard, the contest is not so much between Hobbes and Rousseau as between Bonaparte and Clement Attlee, the
famously
dull post-war British prime minister (of whom Churchill once said “he has much to be modest about”).
The Roots of Chile’s MalaiseSANTIAGO – Margaret Thatcher
famously
once said that “there is no such thing as society.”
As Bertolt Brecht
famously
asked, following the East German Communists’ brutal crackdown on protesting workers in June 1953, “Would it not be easier…for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?”
Asked later about his impressions of the new president, Holmes
famously
quipped: “second-class intellect; first-class temperament.”
Back in 1890, when politicians in the Habsburg Empire routinely blamed Jews for various socioeconomic ills, the Austrian dissident Ferdinand Kronawetter
famously
observed that “Der Antisemitismus ist der Sozialismus der dummen Kerle”: anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools.
Britain’s torment over EU membership is rooted in history: In 1946, Winston Churchill
famously
advocated a United States of Europe – but without Britain.
Aside from an unconvincing nod to humanitarianism, Trump’s only rationale for deploying US military capabilities seems to have been that Obama – after
famously
drawing a “red line” against the use of chemical weapons in Syria – did not respond militarily to the Assad regime’s chemical attack in Ghouta in 2013.
The first step in achieving an accurate, complete, and objective re-evaluation of what happened must involve, as Deng Xiaoping
famously
said, a "search for truth in facts."
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