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See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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