There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

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• Michael Ignatieff:

  It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

• Michael Ignatieff:

  What we want is to become masters in our own house.

• Michael Ignatieff:

  There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

• Michael Ignatieff:

  There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

• Michael Ignatieff:

  How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

• Michael Ignatieff:

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• Michael Ignatieff:

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• Michael Ignatieff:

  All war aims for impunity.

• Michael Ignatieff:

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• Michael Ignatieff:

  There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's al