A Guest Of One's Time And Not

A Foreign Policy Aimed At The Achievement Of Total Security Is The One Thing I Can Think Of That Is Entirely Capable Of Bringing This Country To A Point Where It Will Have No Security At All.

The Very Concept Of History Implies The Scholar And The Reader. Without A Generation Of Civilized People To Study History, To Preserve Its Records, To Absorb Its Lessons And Relate Them To Its Own Problems, History, Too, Would Lose Its Meaning.

War Is A Highly Overrated Tool Of Foreign Policy.

Bearing All This In Mind, We See That There Is No Russian National Understanding Which Would Permit The Early Establishment In Russia Of Anything Resembling The Private Enterprise System As We Know It.

Anyone Who Has Ever Studied The History Of American Diplomacy, Especially Military Diplomacy, Knows That You Might Start In A War With Certain Things On Your Mind As A Purpose Of What You Are Doing, But In The End, You Found Yourself Fighting For Entirely Different Things That You Had Never Thought Of Before. In Other Words, War Has A Momentum Of Its Own And It Carries You Away From All Thoughtful Intentions When You Get Into It. Today, If We Went Into Iraq, Like The President Would Like Us To Do, You Know Where You Begin. You Never Know Where You Are Going To End.