America Is The Number One Superpower Today

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.

Indeed, For Almost 10 Years, Moscow Had To Carry On A War In Afghanistan, Unsupportable By The Government, A Conflict That Brought About The Demoralization And Finally The Breakup Of The Soviet Empire.

It Is Conceivable That At Some Point A Truly United And Powerful European Union Could Become A Global Political Rival To The United States.

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.

People, Governments And Economies Of All Nations Must Serve The Needs Of Multinational Banks And Corporations.