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Booknotes+ : Robert Kaplan, "The Tragic Mind"

After Words

CHAPTER

The Moral Responsibility of the Rebel

Rebels are beloved by literary, artistic and journalistic elites. They can do no wrong since they uphold ideals without the burden of bureaucratic responsibility. The hard part is what are you going to replace it with? You know, to revolt against bureaucratic authority is okay. But if you destroy a system, as we did in Iraq, and you don't have a fully laid out plan to recreate a better system, that's morally wanting.

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