Even A Paranoid Can Have Enemies.

Oil Is Much Too Important A Commodity To Be Left In The Hands Of The Arabs.

The Idea Of Abstract Power Only Exists For Academics, Not In Real Life.

Leaders Must Invoke An Alchemy Of Great Vision.

I Would Say The Special Experience Of American Wartime Policy In The Last 40 Years, From Vietnam On, Is That The War Itself Became Controversial In The Country And That The Most Important Thing We Need In The Current Situation Is, Whatever Disagreements There May Be On Tactics, That The Legitimacy Of The War Itself Does Not Become A Subject Of Controversy. We Have To Start With The Assumption, Obviously, That Whatever Administration Is Conducting A War Wants To End It.

University Politics Make Me Long For The Simplicity Of The Middle East.