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To Put It In A Terminology That Hearkens Back To The More Brutal Age Of Ancient Empires, The Three Grand Imperatives Of Imperial Geo-strategy Are To Prevent Collusion And Maintain Security Dependence Among The Vassals, To Keep Tributaries Pliant And Protected, And To Keep The Barbarians From Coming Together.

The American People Have To Think Hard About Their Definition Of The Meaning Of The Good Life, That Hedonistic, Materialistic Society Of High Levels Of Consumption, Increasing Social Inequality Is Not A Society That Can Be Part Of The Solution Of The World's Problems.

We Have Actually Experienced In Recent Months A Dramatic Demonstration Of An Unprecedented Intelligence Failure, Perhaps The Most Significant Intelligence Failure In The History Of The United States.

The Political Awakening That Is Happening Worldwide Is A Major Challenge For America, Because It Means That The World Is Much More Restless. It's Stirring. It Has Aspirations Which Are Not Easily Satisfied. And If America Is To Lead, It Has To Relate Itself Somehow To These New, Lively, Intense Political Aspirations, Which Make Our Age So Different From Even The Recent Past.

Today We Are Again Witnessing The Emergence Of Transnational Elites ... [whose] Ties Cut Across National Boundaries ...it Is Likely That Before Long The Social Elites Of Most Of The More Advanced Countries Will Be Highly Internationalist Or Globalist In Spirit And Outlook ... The Nation-state Is Gradually Yielding Its Sovereignty... Further Progress Will Require Greater American Sacrifices. More Intensive Efforts To Shape A New World Monetary Structure Will Have To Be Undertaken, With Some Consequent Risk To The Present Relatively Favorable American Position.