To Be A Statesman, You Must First

It's Unnatural And Unhealthy For A Nation To Be Engaged In Global Crusades For Some Principle Or Idea While Neglecting The Needs Of Its Own People.

Like Medieval Theologians We Had A Philosophy That Explained Everything To Us In Advance, And Everything That Did Not Fit Could Be Readily Identified As A Fraud Or A Lie Or An Illusion... The Perniciousness Of The Anti-communist Ideology Of The Truman Doctrine Arises Not From Any Patent Falsehood But From Its Distortion And Simplification Of Reality, From Its Universalization And Its Elevation To The Status Of A Revealed Truth.

The Israelis Object To An Imposed Settlement I Don't Know What They Mean By An Imposed Settlement. It's Quite Obvious, Without The All Out Support By The United States In Money And Weapons And So On The Israelis Couldn't Do What They've Been Doing. So We Bear A Very Great Share Of The Responsibility For The Continuation Of This...of This State Of Warfare.

The Age Of Warrior Kings And Of Warrior Presidents Has Passed. The Nuclear Age Calls For A Different Kind Of Leadership.... A Leadership Of Intellect, Judgment, Tolerance And Rationality, A Leadership Committed To Human Values, To World Peace, And To The Improvement Of The Human Condition. The Attributes Upon Which We Must Draw Are The Human Attributes Of Compassion And Common Sense, Of Intellect And Creative Imagination, And Of Empathy And Understanding Between Cultures.

This Is Regrettable Indeed For A Nation That Aspires To Teach Democracy To Other Nations, Because, As Burke Said: "example Is The School Of Mankind, And They Will Learn At No Other."