Robert D. Kaplan Quotes
Being a great power is very expensive.
Robert D. Kaplan, Political Writer, Interview, WAMU The Diane Rehm Show, September 5, 2007
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Roosevelt came up with Lend Lease and other mechanisms to provide military aid to England.
To a great extent, the same is true in our modern world.
The Iranians have longed to be a major world power ever since Alexander the Great conquered Persia. The aspirations of the Theocracy is not new. It was strong with the Shah and almost all Persians for 2 thousand years.
Although Israel is a vibrant democracy with an aggressive muckraking press, the continuous threats and actual attacks via missiles or terrorists, give national security and safety a high priority in political budgeting and policy making. There is a very powerful role of censorship that the military could and does exercise, with nothing like the American 1st Amendment to protect freedom of speech. However, the military generally has not utilized that power to enable governments of any political party to cover-up scandals or incompetency. However, no one knows if they have used censorship to cover up the incompetencies and scandals of the military itself.
Robert David Kaplan is an American author. His books are on politics, primarily foreign affairs, and travel. His work over three decades has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, The National Interest, Foreign Affairs and The Wall Street Journal, among other newspapers and publications.
