Today It Is Infinitely Easier To Kill

I Don't Feel I Was "born American," But My Homeland Was Denied To Me After The End Of World War Ii And I Craved Something I Could Identify With.

Like So Many Empires Before It, The Soviet Union Eventually Imploded And Fragmented, Falling Victim Not So Much To A Direct Military Defeat As To Disintegration Accelerated By Economic And Social Strains.

One Has To Be Willing To Face The Fact That What Has Transpired In Iraq Is Not Exactly A Very Successful Exercise.

In The Longer Run, I Happen To Think That Russia Really Has No Choice But To Become Gradually More Associated With The Euro-atlantic Community. Because If It Isn't, Then It's Going To Find Itself Essentially Facing China All By Itself, Facing The Euro-atlantic Community All By Itself.

One Has To Understand What The Enemy Is All About: The Enemy's History, The Enemy's Culture, The Enemy's Aspirations. If You Understand These Well, You Can Perhaps Move Towards Peace.