Hegemony Is As Old As Mankind.

Indeed, For Almost 10 Years, Moscow Had To Carry On A War In Afghanistan, Unsupportable By The Government, A Conflict That Brought About The Demoralization And Finally The Breakup Of The Soviet Empire.

Look At Islam In A Rational Manner And Without Demagoguery Or Emotion. It Is The Leading Religion Of The World With 1.5 Billion Followers. But What Is There In Common Among Saudi Arabian Fundamentalism, Moderate Morocco, Pakistan Militarism, Egyptian Pro-western Or Central Asian Secularism? Nothing More Than What Unites The Christian Countries.

Not To Mention The Fact That Of Course Terrorists Hate Freedom. I Think They Do Hate. But Believe Me, I Don't Think They Sit There Abstractly Hating Freedom.

Persisting Social Crisis, The Emergence Of A Charismatic Personality, And The Exploitation Of Mass Media To Obtain Public Confidence Would Be The Steppingstones In The Piecemeal Transformation Of The United States Into A Highly Controlled Society.

The United States Can Certainly Defeat North Vietnam, But The United States Cannot Defeat A Guerrilla War Which Is Being Raged From A Sanctuary Through A Pattern Of Penetration, Intervention, Evasion, Which Is Very Difficult For A Technologically Advanced Country Like The United States To Combat.