God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

I had always been fascinated by the bizarre world of cards. It was a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments were meted out immediately.

A deck of cards was built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it and a lackey to those above it.

Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.