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Anyone Who Has Ever Studied The History Of American Diplomacy, Especially Military Diplomacy, Knows That You Might Start In A War With Certain Things On Your Mind As A Purpose Of What You Are Doing, But In The End, You Found Yourself Fighting For Entirely Different Things That You Had Never Thought Of Before. In Other Words, War Has A Momentum Of Its Own And It Carries You Away From All Thoughtful Intentions When You Get Into It. Today, If We Went Into Iraq, Like The President Would Like Us To Do, You Know Where You Begin. You Never Know Where You Are Going To End.

The Red Army... Swept The Native Population Clean In A Manner That Has No Parallel Since The Days Of The Asiatic Hordes.

We Should Not Lose Ourselves In Vainglorious Sohemes For Changing Human Nature All Over The Planet. Rather, We Should Learn To View Ourselves With A Sense Of Proportion And Christian Humility Before The Enormous Complexity Of The World In Which It Has Been Given Us To Live.

A Political Society Does Not Live To Conduct Foreign Policy; It Would Be More Correct To Say That It Conducts Foreign Policy In Order To Live.

Public Opinion, Or What Passes For Public Opinion, Is Not Invariably A Moderating Force In The Jungle Of Politics.