Robert D. Kaplan Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.”

“Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.”

“Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.”

“Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.”

“Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there.”

“The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.”

“The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments.”

“What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.”

“When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down, it always comes down to one person in the field giving specialized training to somebody else in the field.”