Macht und Ohnmacht, Siedler, 2003, ISBN3886807940, Übersetzer: Thorsten Schmidt. Zitiert in der Rezension von Arno Widmann perlentaucher.de 21.07.2003 http://www.perlentaucher.de/artikel/1033.html
Original engl.: "One British critic of America's propensity to military action recalls the old saw: "When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails." This is true. But nations without great military power face the opposite danger: when you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail." - Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order. Random House 2004. p. 46
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Macht und Ohnmacht, Siedler, 2003, ISBN 3886807940, Übersetzer: Thorsten Schmidt
Original engl.: "A man armed only with a knife may decide that a bear prowling the forest is a tolerable danger, inasmuch as the alternative – hunting the bear armed only with a knife – is actually riskier than lying low and hoping the bear never attacks. The same man armed with a rifle, however, will likely make a different calculation of what constitutes a tolerable risk. Why should he risk being mauled to death if he doesn’t have to?" - Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order. Random House 2004. p. 36. Zitiert in der Rezension von David Runciman in LRB 3. April 2003 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n07/david-runciman/a-bear-armed-with-a-gun
Robert Kagan: Zitate auf Englisch
“When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail.”
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Of Paradise and Power
Alternate version: If you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail.
Of Paradise and Power, p. 26
According to Kagan, this is a variation of the proverb "When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails." (p. 25 of the same book)
