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The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
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Robert D. Kaplan
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The Revenge Of Geography: What
Or take the opportunity offered to the United States following the attacks of September 11, 2001, when both Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mohammed Khatami condemned the Sunni al Qaeda terrorism in no uncertain terms and Iranians held vigils for the victims in the streets of Tehran...or the help Iran gave to the US-led coalition against the Taliban later that year; or the Iranian offer for substantial talks following the fall of Baghdad in the Spring of 2003.
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Robert D. Kaplan
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And so this is where the post Cold War has brought us: to the recognition that the very totalitarism that we fought against in the decades following WWII might, in quite a few circumstances, be preferable to a situation where nobody is in charge. There are things worse than communism, it turned out, and in Iraq we brought them about ourselves.
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Robert D. Kaplan
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Mass education, because it produces hosts of badly educated people liberated from fatalism, will contribute to instability {p. 123}.
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As Napoleon said, to know a nation's geography is to know its foreign policy
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