People Have Multiple Identities.

Two Significant Developments In The Past Several Decades Have Been The Collapse Of Communism As An Ideology And The General Acceptance, In Rhetoric, If Not Practice, Of Liberal Democracy.

The Core Of The American Set Of Beliefs Has Remained Pretty Constant.

Maybe Iraq Will Come Back And Become The Dominant Power Among Arab Countries. That Seems To Me As Conceivable.

Critics Say That America Is A Lie Because Its Reality Falls So Far Short Of Its Ideals. They Are Wrong. America Is Not A Lie; It Is A Disappointment. But It Can Be A Disappointment Only Because It Is Also A Hope.

It Was One Thing To Contain The Soviet Union In Europe Because Britain, France, And Germany Were All Willing To Join In. But Will Japan And Other Asian Countries Be Willing To Join In The Containment Of China?