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Michael Ignatieff

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

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"I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism."

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"We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it."

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"Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted."

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"There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem."

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"Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam."

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