Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.
Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Even paranoid people have enemies.
Certainly nothing is easier than to rewrite history. If we had made Taiwan a separate state, it would have led to a fundamental conflict with China, and probably to war. Certainly in the long term, it would have led to war.