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Quote by William Eldridge Odom

“So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.”

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William Eldridge Odom

William Eldridge Odom, born on June 23, 1932, and passed away on May 30, 2008, was a prominent figure in the field of U.S. national security. He served as the Director of the National Security Agency and was a renowned expert and strategist in the field of national security analysis. more

“Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.”

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Book:Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights That Made the Modern Western World

Source: Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights That Made the Modern Western World

“I'm not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future.”

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Author:Alexander Downer

“But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic project at all, but a political project, designed to devastate the imagination, and willing - with it's cumbersome securitization and insane military projects - to destroy the capitalist order itself if that's what it took to make it seem inevitable.”

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Author:David Graeber

“Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.”

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