The United States Wants To Be Part

Benchmarks Are Targets That Have To Be Fulfilled. They Cannot Be Fulfilled In An Indefinite Period Of Time, So There Are Timetables In Benchmarks.

We Have Actually Experienced In Recent Months A Dramatic Demonstration Of An Unprecedented Intelligence Failure, Perhaps The Most Significant Intelligence Failure In The History Of The United States.

Like So Many Empires Before It, The Soviet Union Eventually Imploded And Fragmented, Falling Victim Not So Much To A Direct Military Defeat As To Disintegration Accelerated By Economic And Social Strains.

History Is Much More The Product Of Chaos Than Of Conspiracy

A Great Deal Of World Politics Is A Fundamental Struggle, But It Is Also A Struggle That Has To Be Waged Intelligently.