History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.

Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.

With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.

The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

What China would do, I cannot predict. China has all but given up the claim to the use of force, except in the circumstance of Taiwan declaring its independence. That is a huge step forward over what the situation was many years ago.

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.