Hegemony Is As Old As Mankind.

The Most Immediate Task Is To Make Certain That No State Or Combination Of States Gains The Capacity To Expel The United States From Eurasia Or Even To Diminish Significantly Its Decisive Arbitration Role.

With The More Endowed Nations Constrained By Their Own Higher Technological Capacity For Self-destruction As Well As By Self Interest, War May Have Become A Luxury That Only The Poor Peoples Of This World Can Afford.

History Is Much More The Product Of Chaos Than Of Conspiracy

Once The Eastern Bloc Collapsed, What I Call 'historical Spontaneity' Prevailed And The Countries That Were Subject To Soviet Control Naturally Gravitated To The West. That's Where They Sought Their Security; I Don't Think There Was A Way To Avoid That. If We Tried To Exclude Them, We Would Have Today Not One Europe, We Would Have Three Europes: One In The West, One In The Middle And One In The East, And The Middle Would Be Insecure And A Tempting Target. The Insecurity Felt [today] By Eastern Europe Would Be Replicated On A Much Larger And More Consequential Scale.

The Fact Is That One Significant Way The Iranians Have A Posture Different From The North Koreans, The North Koreans Basically Are Saying We Have A Nuclear Program. We Are Seeking Weapons. We Have Produced Weapons. We're Proud Of The Fact That We Have Weapons.