Might is Right?

"The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable."
--David Halberstam, American journalist and author--

Who was he?

David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 – April 23, 2007) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, and his later sports journalism.
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In 1991, Halberstam wrote The Next Century, in which he argued that, after the end of the Cold War, the United States was likely to fall behind economically to other countries such as Japan and Germany.
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{COMMENT: 20 years later, not quite true, though Japan's economy has been sluggish for the last decade and Germany is bearing the weight of the EU (European Union) on its financial shoulders}
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Reference - more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Halberstam