Ehud Barak

War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them off.

History never repeats itself in the same way.

There is a need to accept a limited disruption of civil liberties in order to penetrate terror.

Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.