"Compromise: Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), American writer
Secretary of State Colin Powell talks about zero-sum competition, the United States as a superpower, his belief that our country has worldwide obligations and opines about why the Middle East is full of political and economic failures in this excellent interview with P. J. O'Rourke of The Atlantic Monthly. It's worth your time. Read the whole thing.
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