“…what has succeeded the last age of empire is a new age of violence. The key narrative of the new world order is the disintegration of nation states into ethnic civil war; the key architects of that order are warlords; and the key language of our age is ethnic nationalism.”
Blood and Belonging (Toronto: Viking, 1993), p. 2
“Nationalists are supremely sentimental. Kitcsch is the natural aesthetic of an ethnic ‘cleanser’. Ther eis no killer on either side of the checkpoints who will not pause, between firing at his enemies, to sing a nostalgic song or even recite a few lines of some ethnic epic. The latent purpose of such sentimentality is to imply that one is in the grip of a love greater than reason, stronger than the will, a love akin to fate and destiny. Such a love assists the belief that it is fate, however tragic, which obliges you to kill.”
ibid., p. 6