Endnote 6.
Commenting recently on the need for NATO authority to contain warring factions in the Balkans, the historian Donald Kagan appealed to totem principles while denying them, as follows: "The critical element is that we have to show that we are committed not to allow war to be the way to settle these questions and that we are prepared to use force to avoid that in the extreme situation, if we have to." (The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nov. 30, 1995, Transcript #5409).