Foreign Policy Should Not Be Justified Through

The Scope Of America's Global Hegemony Is Admittedly Great, But Its Depth Is Shallow, Limited By Both Domestic And External Restraints.

It's Perfectly Natural To Desire More Troops When Engaged In A Military Operation Facing Serious Obstacles, And The More Troops You Have, Probably, The [lower The] Risk Of Causalities.

It Certainly Would Be Possible For America To Redefine Its Role In The World, Especially If, In The Short Run, America Is Able To Cope Effectively With The Ongoing Dilemma In The Middle East.

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.

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.