Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.