The Technetronic Era Involves The Gradual Appearance

Regret What? That Secret Operation Was An Excellent Idea. It Had The Effect Of Drawing The Russians Into The Afghan Trap And You Want Me To Regret It? The Day That The Soviets Officially Crossed The Border, I Wrote To President Carter. We Now Have The Opportunity Of Giving To The Ussr Its Vietnam War. Indeed, For Almost 10 Years, Moscow Had To Carry On A War Unsupportable By The Government, A Conflict That Brought About The Demoralization And Finally The Breakup Of The Soviet Empire.

The Israelis Have Taken A Lot Of Security Measures Which Reduce Significantly The Ability Of Iran To Inflict Truly Severe Pain In Israel. But America Is Vulnerable With 100,000 Troops In Iraq And More Than Half Of That In Afghanistan, And We Depend Heavily On Access To Middle Eastern Oil. We're Sitting Targets For Debilitating Iranian Retaliation.

Russia Can Be Either An Empire Or A Democracy, But It Cannot Be Both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia Ceases To Be An Empire, But With Ukraine Suborned And Then Subordinated, Russia Automatically Becomes An Empire.

I Encouraged The Chinese To Support Pol Pot. I Encouraged The Thailand|thai To Help The Khmer Rouge. The Question Was How To Help The Cambodian People. Pol Pot Was An Abomination. We Could Never Support Him. But China Could.

Benchmarks Are Targets That Have To Be Fulfilled. They Cannot Be Fulfilled In An Indefinite Period Of Time, So There Are Timetables In Benchmarks.