The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.
Michael IgnatieffMemory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.
Michael IgnatieffCynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
Michael Ignatieff