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"Mr President, unremarked and unreported, the Libyan state is decomposing. We have all the classic ingredients of a failed state there – rival governments commanding rival structures, militiamen, closed airports – and it has all happened out of the media eye. It is a quite extraordinary thing: the way in which we seem capable of focusing only on one part of the world at any given time. It is as though we are controlled by that malicious demon of Descartes that dictates our reality by controlling our senses.
I hope that the denouement in Libya has taught us the limits of our power. It was not long ago that the British and French Heads of Government were boasting about having averted catastrophe and put that country on the road to stability and democracy. If nothing else, maybe we will have been taught a lesson in modesty. There is a limit to what we can do outside our own area."@en1
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