The American People Have To Think Hard

Today We Are In A Situation In Which The Free Movement Of People Can Have Enormous, Monumental Dimensions, And I Don't Think That Any Country In Western Europe Or In America Can Any Longer Adopt The Idea Of Totally Free Movement Of People. I T Would Simply Overwhelm Their Social Facilities, Their Societies And Create Migratory Dynamics On The Scales Of Tens And Tens Of Millions Of People. That Simply Is Not Practical.

Hard Power Makes Sense Under Some Circumstances. But There's Not A Universal Solution To Global Problems. A Major Country Like The United States Has To Have A Broadly-conceived Program For Effective International Action, Influence And Cooperation With Others.

The Legitimacy Of The Leadership Depends On What That Country Thinks Of Its Leaders. When We Lay Off, More And More Iranians Tend To Be Critical Of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The More Abusive We Are And The More Pressure We Put On Them, The More Nationalism Fuses With Fundamentalism In Iran.

I'm Perfectly Willing To Say No More Iraqs, Which Means No More Unilateral Starting Of The War On False Claims, False Information, And A Complete Misunderstanding Of The Nature Of The Situation In The Region.

The Dynamic Character Of China's Nonstatist Economic Transformation, Including Its Social Openness To The Rest Of The World, Is Not Mutually Compatible In The Long Run With A Relatively Closed And Bureaucratically Rigid Communist Dictatorship.