-“It’s not meant in a personal way.” John Kerry press conference in London, March 14, 2014.
-wishes about “mobilizing the international community.” Obama actually said this (“Remarks by President Obama and President Poroshenko of Ukraine After Bilateral Meeting,” September 18, 2014). Many of his remarks look like a parody of diplomatic doubletalk: “And we are going to continue to seek to mobilize the international community to say to Russia that Ukraine desires to have a good relationship with all of its neighbors, both East and West, and that there should be a way in which Ukraine is able to negotiate and trade, and continue the people-to-people links between Ukraine and Russia, but that Russia cannot dictate to them their ability to work effectively with other partners in order to better the situation for the Ukrainian people.” Russia had just invaded Ukraine!
CONCLUSION
-Kim Jong-il and those similar to him understand. Vaclav Havel, “Time to Act on N. Korea,” Washington Post, June 18, 2004.
-calling the murder a “provocation.” Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, expressed this just hours after the murder. Putin repeated it the next day.
-justice that seemed further away all the time. The entire 2011 Nemtsov report “Putin. Corruption” is available online in Russian and English at http://www.nemtsov.ru/old.phtml?id=706613. Thousands of printed copies were seized and destroyed as “extremist literature,” of course.
-not merely a cockpit in a Tower of Babel. Actually titled “Sinews of Peace,” it’s simply known as the “Iron Curtain Speech” forevermore. It’s worth reading, or hearing, in full if only to marvel at how Churchill, famous for soaring rhetoric, was also keen to discuss an array of details and policy in his speeches. Text and audio here: http://www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1946-1963-elder-statesman/the-sinews-of-peace.
-the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. Mark 2:22 (New International Version).
-“wake me up when they take Poland” As actually said to me by Bill Maher on his show Real Time on May 1, 2015.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Garry Kasparov spent twenty years as the world’s number-one-ranked chess player. In 2005, he retired from professional chess to help lead the pro-democracy opposition against Vladimir Putin. In 2012, he was named chairman of the Human Rights Foundation, succeeding Vaclav Havel. He has been a contributing editor to the Wall Street Journal since 1991, and he is a senior visiting fellow at the Oxford-Martin School. His 2007 book, How Life Imitates Chess, has been published in twenty-six languages. He lives in self-imposed exile in New York with his wife, Dasha, and their children.
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