It Is Clear That The Main Element

Popular Revolt Against A Ruthless, Experienced Modern Dictatorship, Which Enjoys A Monopoly Over Weapons And Communications, ... Is Simply Not A Possibility In The Modern Age.

Instruments Of Coercion, Once Created, Have A Tendency To Find Their Own Natural Masters.

It Is Obviously Easier, For The Short Run, To Draw Cheap Labor From Adjacent Pools Of Poverty...than To Find It Among One's Own People. And To The Millions Of Such Prospective Immigrants From Poverty To Prosperity, There Is, Rightly Or Wrongly, No Place That Looks More Attractive Than The United States. Given Its Head, And Subject To No Restrictions, This Pressure Will Find Its Termination Only When The Levels Of Overpopulation And Poverty In The United States Are Equal To Those Of The Countries From Which These People Are Now So Anxious To Escape.

A Foreign Policy Aimed At The Achievement Of Total Security Is The One Thing I Can Think Of That Is Entirely Capable Of Bringing This Country To A Point Where It Will Have No Security At All.

Anyone Who Has Ever Studied The History Of American Diplomacy, Especially Military Diplomacy, Knows That You Might Start In A War With Certain Things On Your Mind As A Purpose Of What You Are Doing, But In The End, You Found Yourself Fighting For Entirely Different Things That You Had Never Thought Of Before. In Other Words, War Has A Momentum Of Its Own And It Carries You Away From All Thoughtful Intentions When You Get Into It. Today, If We Went Into Iraq, Like The President Would Like Us To Do, You Know Where You Begin. You Never Know Where You Are Going To End.