Donald Trump Has Declared That He's Going

By Abrogating All Moral Standards In Their War Against Israel, Arab And Muslim Leaders Initiated A Process Of Moral Collapse That Has Ended By Soaking Their Own Societies In Blood. The Terror They Intended To Inflict Only Upon Others Has Rebounded With A Hundred Times Greater Horror Upon Their Own Lands.

World War Ii Proved A Hypothesis That Alexis De Tocqueville Advanced A Century Before: The War-fighting Potential Of A Democracy Is At Its Greatest When War Is Most Intense; At Its Weakest When War Is Most Limited. This Is A Lesson With Enduring Relevance To Our Own Times - And Our Own Wars.

I Am Really And Truly Frightened By The Collapse Of Support For The Republican Party By The Young And The Educated.

Life, As The Signs In The Liquor Stores Say, Is Too Short To Drink Bad Wine. And Summer Is Too Short To Read Bad Books.

Democracy Takes Work. That's The Thing We're Really Finding Out, That, You Know, In Many Ways, You Know, The Past Two Decades We've Taken For Granted All Of The Extraordinary Achievements Of The Post-war Generation. You Know, Building This Global Alliance Structure That Has Kept The Peace Across The North Atlantic Since World War Ii. Building All Of These Institutions, Building All This Remarkable Technology. And People Have Privatized. You Know, You Can Now, You Don't Have To Go Outdoors Much, The Whole World Comes To You.