American Power Worldwide Is At Its Historic

Though Stalinism May Have Been A Needless Tragedy For Both The Russian People And Communism As An Ideal, There Is The Intellectually Tantalizing Possibility That For The World At Large It Was, As We Shall See, A Blessing In Disguise.

The Momentum Of Asia's Economic Development Is Already Generating Massive Pressures For The Exploration And Exploitation Of New Sources Of Energy And The Central Asian Region And The Caspian Sea Basin Are Known To Contain Reserves Of Natural Gas And Oil That Dwarf Those Of Kuwait, The Gulf Of Mexico, Or The North Sea.

I Was Confident About America And The Idea That In America People Can Become American Without Masking Their Ethnic Identity.

The Political Awakening That Is Happening Worldwide Is A Major Challenge For America, Because It Means That The World Is Much More Restless. It's Stirring. It Has Aspirations Which Are Not Easily Satisfied. And If America Is To Lead, It Has To Relate Itself Somehow To These New, Lively, Intense Political Aspirations, Which Make Our Age So Different From Even The Recent Past.

Because When You Kill 300 People, 400 People, Who Have Nothing To Do With The Provocations Hezbollah Staged, But You Do It In Effect Deliberately By Being Indifferent To The Scale Of Collateral Damage, You're Killing Hostages In The Hope Of Intimidating Those That You Want To Intimidate. And More Likely Than Not You Will Not Intimidate Them. You'll Simply Outrage Them And Make Them Into Permanent Enemies With The Number Of Such Enemies Increasing.