In Iraq We Must Succeed. Failure Is

We Shouldn't Overdramatize The Current Disagreements With The Russians. They Are Real, But They're Not Really All That Threatening. And The Notion That We're Moving Back To Some Cold War I Think Is Really An Exaggerated Judgment.

I Have No Patience For Those In The American Jewish Community Who Just Go Around Slandering People As Anti-semites Without Realizing That What They're Doing Is Really Trivializing Anti-semitism.

With The More Endowed Nations Constrained By Their Own Higher Technological Capacity For Self-destruction As Well As By Self Interest, War May Have Become A Luxury That Only The Poor Peoples Of This World Can Afford.

The Israeli-palestinian Problem Becomes Very Acute With Gaza Dominated By Hamas. With The Possibility Of The Conflict Escalating, Not Only In Terms Of Gaza But Also The Hezbollah And Lebanon, With The Continuing Crisis In Iraq, Which Is Very Dynamic And Unpredictable And Which Could Get Out Of Hand, And Maybe Even Escalate And Enlarge.

Palestinian Terrorism Has To Be Rejected And Condemned, Yes. But It Should Not Be Translated Defacto Into A Policy Of Support For A Really Increasingly Brutal Repression, Colonial Settlements And A New Wall.