We Should Be Therefore Supporting A Larger

I Think It Is Essential That America Does Not Stumble Into A Stupid War With Iran.

We Look A Little Bit Disorderly, Indecisive, Leaderless. That's A Real Problem, And That's A Problem That Concerns Me Particularly On Foreign Affairs. The Presidency, Not Just President Obama, But The Presidency In Recent Years Has Lost Some Of The Terrain That They Used To Dominate In The Making Of Foreign Policy. I Think President Obama Has To Make A Serious Effort To Regain It Because He Lost Some Of It Himself.

Technology Will Make Available To The Leaders Of Major Nations, Techniques For Conducting Secret Warfare, Of Which Only A Bare Minimum Of The Security Forces Need Be Appraised.....techniques Of Weather Modification Could Be Employed To Produce Prolonged Periods Of Drought Or Storm.

Our World Is Integrated To An Unprecedented Degree, While The Global Political Awakening Is Injecting Into Interstate Relations An Intense Amount Of Tension, Emotion, Even Irrationality, Which Could Cumulatively Produce Circumstances That Preclude An Effective And Genuinely Shared Universal Response To New Global Problems.

If A New President Personalizes A Rather Different Concept Of America And A Different Sense Of America's Mission In The World Than Has Been The Case With President George W. Bush, Then That Almost Automatically Will Help To Improve America's Global Image. But The Tangibles Involving The War And The Economy Are Not Going To Be Easy To Fix.