Russia Can Be Either An Empire Or

The Israelis Have A Lot Of Influence With Congress, And In Some Cases They Are Able To Buy Influence.

One Has To Define Very Clearly What One's Objectives Are, Determine In Advance How Much One Is Prepared To Pay To Achieve That Objective And Then Act Accordingly.

That [american Exceptionalism] Is A Reaction To The Inability Of People To Understand Global Complexity Or Important Issues Like American Energy Dependency. Therefore, They Search For Simplistic Sources Of Comfort And Clarity. And The People That They Are Now Selecting To Be, So To Speak, The Spokespersons Of Their Anxieties Are, In Most Cases, Stunningly Ignorant.

America Is The Only Superpower. But Our Leadership Is Being Tested In The Middle East, And Some Of The Things That We Have Done In The Middle East Are Contributing To A Potential Explosion Region-wide. And If That Explosion Gets Out Of Hand, We May End Up Being Bogged Down For Many Years To Come In A Conflict That Will Be Profoundly Damaging To Our Capacity To Exercise Our Power, To Address The Problems Implicit In This Global Awakening, And We May Face A World In Which Much Of The World Turns Away From Us, Seeks Its Own Equilibrium, But Probably Slides Into A Growing Chaos.

Lets Cooperate And Challenge The Administration To Cooperate With Us Because Within The Administration There Are Also Moderates And People Who Are Not Fully Comfortable With The Tendencies That Have Prevailed In Recent Times.