The Mistakes Of The Iraq War Are

One Has To Define Very Clearly What One's Objectives Are, Determine In Advance How Much One Is Prepared To Pay To Achieve That Objective And Then Act Accordingly.

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.

Foreign Policy Of A Pluralistic Democracy Like The United States Should Be Based On Bipartisanship Because Bipartisanship Is The Means And The Framework For Formulating Policies Based On Moderation And On The Recognition Of The Complexity Of The Human Condition. That Has Been The Tradition Since The Days Of Truman And Vandenberg All The Way Until Recent Times.

Speaking Of A Future At Most Only Decades Away, An Experimenter In Intelligence Control Asserted, “i Foresee A Time When We Shall Have The Means And Therefore, Inevitably, The Temptation To Manipulate The Behavior And Intellectual Functioning Of All The People Through Environmental And Biochemical Manipulation Of The Brain.

Let's Address The Issue Of How America Deals With The Iraqis And How We Deal With The Region, Recognize The Fact That This Is A Misadventure, Which It Is In Our Interest To Terminate And Not To Repeat. That's A Rather Important Conclusion To Draw, And A Very Important Lesson.