Benchmarks Are Targets That Have To Be

The Technetronic Era Involves The Gradual Appearance Of A More Controlled Society. Such A Society Would Be Dominated By Elite, Unrestrained By Traditional Values.

The Political Awakening That Is Happening Worldwide Is A Major Challenge For America, Because It Means That The World Is Much More Restless. It's Stirring. It Has Aspirations Which Are Not Easily Satisfied. And If America Is To Lead, It Has To Relate Itself Somehow To These New, Lively, Intense Political Aspirations, Which Make Our Age So Different From Even The Recent Past.

The Dynamic Character Of China's Nonstatist Economic Transformation, Including Its Social Openness To The Rest Of The World, Is Not Mutually Compatible In The Long Run With A Relatively Closed And Bureaucratically Rigid Communist Dictatorship.

But If Russia Is To Be Part Of This Larger Zone Of Peace It Cannot Bring Into It Its Imperial Baggage. It Cannot Bring Into It A Policy Of Genocide Against The Chechens, And Cannot Kill Journalists, And It Cannot Repress The Mass Media.

Let's Address The Issue Of How America Deals With The Iraqis And How We Deal With The Region, Recognize The Fact That This Is A Misadventure, Which It Is In Our Interest To Terminate And Not To Repeat. That's A Rather Important Conclusion To Draw, And A Very Important Lesson.