I Think It Is Important To Ask

The Day That The Soviets Officially Crossed The Border Of Afghanistan, I Wrote To President Jimmy Carter: We Now Have The Opportunity Of Giving To The Ussr Its Vietnam War.

Israel's International Position Is Very Badly Damaged. A Country Which Started Off As A Symbol Of Recovery Of A People Who Were Greatly Persecuted Now Looks Like A Country That Is Persecuting People. And That's Very Bad.

America Is The Only Superpower. But Our Leadership Is Being Tested In The Middle East, And Some Of The Things That We Have Done In The Middle East Are Contributing To A Potential Explosion Region-wide. And If That Explosion Gets Out Of Hand, We May End Up Being Bogged Down For Many Years To Come In A Conflict That Will Be Profoundly Damaging To Our Capacity To Exercise Our Power, To Address The Problems Implicit In This Global Awakening, And We May Face A World In Which Much Of The World Turns Away From Us, Seeks Its Own Equilibrium, But Probably Slides Into A Growing Chaos.

We Look A Little Bit Disorderly, Indecisive, Leaderless. That's A Real Problem, And That's A Problem That Concerns Me Particularly On Foreign Affairs. The Presidency, Not Just President Obama, But The Presidency In Recent Years Has Lost Some Of The Terrain That They Used To Dominate In The Making Of Foreign Policy. I Think President Obama Has To Make A Serious Effort To Regain It Because He Lost Some Of It Himself.

The United States Is Prepared Really To Be Engaged In The Quest To Get People In The World The Dignities That They Seek Today, The Social Justice That They Feel They're Deprived Of, And The Common Solution To Global Problems.