Let's Address The Issue Of How America

The Most Immediate Task Is To Make Certain That No State Or Combination Of States Gains The Capacity To Expel The United States From Eurasia Or Even To Diminish Significantly Its Decisive Arbitration Role.

Never Before Has A Populist Democracy Attained International Supremacy. But The Pursuit Of Power Is Not A Goal That Commands Popular Passion, Except In Conditions Of A Sudden Threat Or Challenge To The Public's Sense Of Domestic Well-being. The Economic Self-denial (that Is, Defense Spending) And The Human Sacrifice (casualties, Even Among Professional Soldiers) Required In The Effort Are Uncongenial To Democratic Instincts. Democracy Is Inimical To Imperial Mobilization.

I Think It Is Essential That America Does Not Stumble Into A Stupid War With Iran.

The Israeli-palestinian Problem Becomes Very Acute With Gaza Dominated By Hamas. With The Possibility Of The Conflict Escalating, Not Only In Terms Of Gaza But Also The Hezbollah And Lebanon, With The Continuing Crisis In Iraq, Which Is Very Dynamic And Unpredictable And Which Could Get Out Of Hand, And Maybe Even Escalate And Enlarge.

For America, The Chief Geopolitical Prize Is Eurasia... Now A Non-eurasian Power Is Preeminent In Eurasia - And America's Global Primacy Is Directly Dependent On How Long And How Effectively Its Preponderance On The Eurasian Continent Is Sustained.