Belief And Seeing Are Both Often Wrong.

At My Age, 85, I'm At Age Where I Can Look Back And Derive Some Conclusions About My Actions. My Rule Has Been Try To Learn, Try To Understand What Happened. Develop The Lessons And Pass Them On.

That's One Of The Major Lessons: No President Should Ever Take This Nation To War Without Full Public Debate In The Congress And/or In The Public.

The 'realist' Conception Of Continuing Old-fashioned 'balance Of Power' Politics May Have Been Well Founded In The Past, But It Is Inconsistent With Our Increasing Interdependent World. On Moral Grounds Alone There Can Be No Justification For The 20th Century Level Of Killing. To Settle Disputes Without Violence Must Become The Primary Goal Of Foreign Policy For Every Nation.

There Is No More Important Task In A Democracy Than Resolving The Differences Among People And Finding A Course Of Action That Will Be Supported By A Sufficient Number To Permit The Nation To Achieve A Better Life For All.

If We'd Lost The War, We'd All Have Been Prosecuted As War Criminals. And I Think He's Right. He, And I'd Say I, Were Behaving As War Criminals.