Time in the Shadows by Khalili Laleh;

Author:Khalili, Laleh;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012-03-16T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

THE FRACTURE OF GOOD ORDER

The Government of India . . . is patient because among other things it knows that if the worst comes to the worst, it can shoot anybody down. Its problem is to avoid such hateful conclusions. It is a sedate Government tied up by the laws, tangled about with parleys and many intimate relations; tied up not only by the House of Commons, but by all sorts of purely Anglo-Indian restraints varying from the grandest conceptions of liberal magnanimity down to the most minute obstructions and inconveniences of red tape.

Winston Churchill, 19301

The purpose of power is not power itself; it is the fundamentally liberal purpose of sustaining the key characteristics of an orderly world. Those characteristics include basic political stability; the idea of liberty, pragmatically conceived; respect for property; economic freedom; and representative government, culturally understood. At this moment in time it is American power, and American power only, that can serve as an organizing principle for the worldwide expansion of a liberal civil society.

Robert Kaplan, 20032

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