The Paper Nominated Me 12 Or 13

It Had Run As A Column - I Had Worked At The Paper Since 1976, But The Column Had Been Running For 13 Years, And I Think It Was A Strong Column, Criticizing The War When The Paper Was Supporting It.

The Fact Is ... That When Totalitarian Nations Like China And Saudi Arabia Play Ball With U.s. Business Interests, We Like Them Just Fine. But When Venezuela's Freely Elected President Threatens Powerful Corporate Interests, The Bush Administration Treats Him As An Enemy.

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.

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.

Richard Nixon Even Before Becoming President, Before Meeting Henry Kissinger, He Said, "this Is Ridiculous. Communism Is Nationalist. The Chinese And Russian And Yugoslav And Cuban And - None Of These Communists Get Along, And The Koreans And The Vietnamese, And We Can Do Business With Them." And Then He Opened Up To China, And That's When The Cold War Started.