I Believe In The Cosmos. All Of

Without Perestroika, The Cold War Simply Would Not Have Ended. But The World Could Not Continue Developing As It Had, With The Stark Menace Of Nuclear War Ever Present.

It Will Be Difficult, Even Painful, But Democracy Will Prevail In Russia. There Will Be No Dictatorship, Although Relapses Into Authoritarianism Are Possible.

Not Only America But All Countries Should Think Together About How The Enormous Might Of The Sole Remaining Superpower Should Be Used. We Need A Leadership That Is Based On Partnership, A Leadership That Unites Nations And Makes It Possible To Solve The Problems Of The Globe Together. Otherwise, We Will Have Another Gold Rush For A Superpower That Wants To Gain Even Greater Advantages, That Wants To Gain An Absolutely New Position For Itself. That Would Lead To A Perverse Utopia.

We Used To Have Just One Criterion And That Was Profit, And Then Another Criterion Was Added - Social Welfare. Now We Have To Add The Third Important Criterion, And That Is Nature And The Environment.

One Of The Reasons Why This Country Undertook Military Action In Iraq Was That There Are Quite A Few Problems Here, And Perhaps Attention Needed To Be Deflected From Those Problems. It Sometimes Seems That The U.s. Economy Works Successfully Only If It Gets A Stimulus From The Defense Industry. So Perhaps In Addition To Showing The Power And The Might Of The United States Internationally, Another Reason Was To Help The Defense Industry And To Help The U.s. Economy Recover.