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

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government

From a geo-strategic point of view, I consider Iran a bigger problem than the Islamic State. ISIS is a group of adventurers with a very aggressive ideology. But they have to conquer more and more territory before they can became a geo-strategic, permanent reality. I think a conflict with ISIS - important as it is - is more manageable than a confrontation with Iran.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.