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Henry Kissinger: “If order cannot be achieved by consensus or imposed by force, it will be wrought at disastrous and dehumanizing cost…”

On the recordJanuary 2, 2018
If order cannot be achieved by consensus or imposed by force, it will be wrought at disastrous and dehumanizing cost, from the experience of chaos.
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Henry Kissinger

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Emphasizes the consequences of failing to establish order in fragile states.

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