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General, You Don't Have A War Plan! All You Have Is A Kind Of Horrible Spasm!

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.

It Is True That At The Time [1962] We Had A Strategic Nuclear Force Of Approximately Five Thousand Warheads Compared To The Soviet's Three Hundred.

Elimination Of Nuclear Weapons, So Naive, So Simplistic, And So Idealistic As To Be Quixotic? Some May Think So. But As Human Beings, Citizens Of Nations With Power To Influence Events In The World, Can We Be At Peace With Ourselves If We Strive For Less? I Think Not.