Global Stability - Economic As Well As

In The Long Run, Global Politics Are Bound To Become Increasingly Uncongenial To The Concentration Of Hegemonic Power In The Hands Of A Single State. Hence, America Is Not Only The First, As Well As The Only, Truly Global Superpower, But It Is Also Likely To Be The Very Last.

I Encouraged The Chinese To Support Pol Pot. I Encouraged The Thailand|thai To Help The Khmer Rouge. The Question Was How To Help The Cambodian People. Pol Pot Was An Abomination. We Could Never Support Him. But China Could.

I Have No Patience For Those In The American Jewish Community Who Just Go Around Slandering People As Anti-semites Without Realizing That What They're Doing Is Really Trivializing Anti-semitism.

Never Before Has A Populist Democracy Attained International Supremacy. But The Pursuit Of Power Is Not A Goal That Commands Popular Passion, Except In Conditions Of A Sudden Threat Or Challenge To The Public's Sense Of Domestic Well-being. The Economic Self-denial (that Is, Defense Spending) And The Human Sacrifice (casualties, Even Among Professional Soldiers) Required In The Effort Are Uncongenial To Democratic Instincts. Democracy Is Inimical To Imperial Mobilization.

I Think President George W. Bush Contributed Very Directly To The Fact That The Status Of America As The World's Only Superpower Lasted For 20 Years At Most.