Most Of The Villagers Were Hiding In

Our National Leaders Tend To Try To Protect The National Interest As They See It. They May Screw Up In That, But They At Least See That As Their Role. In Contrast, Where Issues Of Our National Values Are Involved, Which Covers Pretty Much Any Humanitarian Issue, They Pretty Much Drop The Ball.

There Are Other Issues I Have Felt More Emotionally Connected To, Like China, Where I Lived And Worked For Some Time. I Was Living There When Tiananmen Square Erupted

The Way You Get Leaders To Care About Issues Of Conscience Is To Apply Political Pressure. It's Less A Question Of Persuading Leaders Directly And More Trying To Build A Social Movement That Holds Their Feet To The Fire.

Let Me Be Clear: I'm A Believer In A Robust Military, Which Is Essential For Backing Up Diplomacy. But The Implication Is That We Need A Balanced Tool Chest Of Diplomatic And Military Tools Alike. Instead, We Have A Billionaire Military And A Pauper Diplomacy. The U.s. Military Now Has More People In Its Marching Bands Than The State Department Has In Its Foreign Service - And That's Preposterous.

China Was Probably The Worst Place In The World To Grow Up Female 100 Years Ago. There Was Foot Binding, Female Infanticide, Concubinage, And Child Marriage, And Now It's One Of The Better Places. So I Really Do Feel That We're On The Right Side Of History Here.