"The price of greatness is responsibility. If the people of the United States had continued in a mediocre station, struggling with the wilderness, absorbed in their own affairs, and a factor of no consequence in the movement of the world, they might have remained forgotten and undisturbed beyond their protecting oceans: but one cannot rise to be in many ways the leading community in the civilised world without being involved in its problems, without being convulsed by its agonies and inspired by its causes".
Winston S. Churchill
September 6, 1943. Harvard.
3 comments:
not to mention the human race as a whole...
There are some problems it would be wise to avoid.
@ Mudpuddle: Indeed.
@ James: You most definitely have to pick your battles. The first question any government/state has to ask itself before it gets involved in anything - especially outside its borders - is "Is this in our interests?" If the answers is no - then you shouldn't get involved (or do so secretly so you can deny it latter!).
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