
— Robert Kagan US-amerikanischer Politikberater und Autor 1958
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