One Has To Understand What The Enemy

It Follows That America's Primary Interest Is To Help Ensure That No Single Power Comes To Control This Geopolitical Space And That The Global Community Has Unhindered Financial And Economic Access To It.

Arab Nationalism, Which Tended To Be Until Relatively Recent Somewhat Secular In Motivation, Has Now Become Increasingly Religious And Fundamentalist. And That Makes It More Pervasive, More Difficult To Deal With.

The Notion That Somehow Or Another They'll (iran) Put It In A Picnic Basket And Hand It To Some Terrorist Group Is Merely An Argument That May Be Convincing To Some People Who Don't Know Anything About Nuclear Weapons. I Don't Find That Argument Very Credible, I'm Not Sure That People Who Make It Even Believe In It. But It's A Good Argument To Make If You Have No Other Argument To Make. The Fact Of The Matter Is, Iran Has Been Around For 3000 Years, And That Is Not A Symptom Of A Suicidal Instinct.

Technology Will Make Available To The Leaders Of Major Nations, Techniques For Conducting Secret Warfare, Of Which Only A Bare Minimum Of The Security Forces Need Be Appraised.....techniques Of Weather Modification Could Be Employed To Produce Prolonged Periods Of Drought Or Storm.

We Didn't Push The Russians To Intervene, But We Knowingly Increased The Probability That They Would.