The Issue I Highlight In The Book

George W. Bush Is A Person Who Is Totally Disinterested In The World, Uneducated. I'm Not Saying He's Stupid. I Don't Think He's Stupid. He's Crafty As Hell, But He Projects Well On Television. And That's The Real Big Problem. He Is The Perfect "what, Me Worry?" President.

Nuclear Weapons Are Inherently Threatening To All Of Civilization. If That Had Been A Nuclear Weapon At The World Trade Center, Even The Most Primitive Kind Of The Hiroshima, Nagasaki, You Wouldn't Have A Manhattan. There Wouldn't Be A Democracy Of Any Kind In America.

I Teach At Usc, And It's Obvious To Anyone Who Teaches College Students That They Don't Cover Much Modern History And Certainly Not The Modern Presidency.

Today Anyone On The Internet Can Find Out More About What You Read, Think, And Earn Than The Secret Police Of Stalin Or Hitler Could Have Learned.

Eisenhower Provided The First Break In The Cold War, By Bringing Khrushchev To The United States, In Humanizing The Soviets; And Then Nixon, By Making The Opening To China; And Then Reagan, Even Meeting In Reykjavik With Gorbachev And Acknowledging That Nuclear Weapons Are A Horror. So I Won't Accept That Republicans Just Escalate. Republicans, At Least When They Were More Moderate, They Were Maybe Even More Isolationist, They Sometimes Brought Sanity To The Debate. We Don't Have That Now. We Have - All These Republicans Have Gone Off The Neoconservative Deep End.