One Has To Be Willing To Face

Indeed, For Almost 10 Years, Moscow Had To Carry On A War In Afghanistan, Unsupportable By The Government, A Conflict That Brought About The Demoralization And Finally The Breakup Of The Soviet Empire.

Arab Nationalism, Which Tended To Be Until Relatively Recent Somewhat Secular In Motivation, Has Now Become Increasingly Religious And Fundamentalist. And That Makes It More Pervasive, More Difficult To Deal With.

More Directly Linked To The Impact Of Technology, It Involves The Gradual Appearance Of A More Controlled And Directed Society. Such A Society Would Be Dominated By An Elite Whose Claim To Political Power Would Rest On Allegedly Superior Scientific Know-how. Unhindered By The Restraints Of Traditional Liberal Values, This Elite Would Not Hesitate To Achieve Its Political Ends By Using The Latest Modern Techniques For Influencing Public Behavior And Keeping Society Under Close Surveillance And Control.

The United States Can Certainly Defeat North Vietnam, But The United States Cannot Defeat A Guerrilla War Which Is Being Raged From A Sanctuary Through A Pattern Of Penetration, Intervention, Evasion, Which Is Very Difficult For A Technologically Advanced Country Like The United States To Combat.

Iraq May Have Been A Preview Of That, But It's Still Redeemable If We Get Out Fast. In A War With Iran, We'll Get Dragged Down For 20 Or 30 Years. The World Will Condemn Us. We Will Lose Our Position In The World.