Almost alone in either party, he urged the Senate to give President Clinton the option of using ground troops in Kosovo articulating more clearly than anyone else the view that America has interests abroad that are worthdyingfor.
Because one of the effects of having such an ideas-based vision of society, and elevating ideas to such heights, is that people actually start believing in them, and then maybe they start thinking the ideas are worth fighting for, or perhaps dyingfor, or perhaps even killing for.