I Think President George W. Bush Contributed

The Israelis Have Taken A Lot Of Security Measures Which Reduce Significantly The Ability Of Iran To Inflict Truly Severe Pain In Israel. But America Is Vulnerable With 100,000 Troops In Iraq And More Than Half Of That In Afghanistan, And We Depend Heavily On Access To Middle Eastern Oil. We're Sitting Targets For Debilitating Iranian Retaliation.

America Is The Number One Superpower Today In The World.

As In All Things, It Is Terribly Important To Have A Sense Of Priorities In What You Do. And To Make Certain That Priorities Do Not Clash.

I Think The United States Is Currently A Kind Of Wonder - Wonderland With The President Trump Speaking On Subjects Of His Choice, Some Of Which Are Entertaining, But None Of Which Are Very Strategically Substantive.

There Are Major Disappointments With The Outcomes Of Solidarity: Corruption, And Major Pockets Of Economic Backwardness And Even Poverty. By And Large, Though, If There Were A Choice Between The Life Poles Led In The 1970s And 1980s And Now, Nobody But A Lunatic Would Say They Wanted To Have Back What They Had Before.