One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by famine, riots, insurrection and war.

That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward nation into submission on an issue whose merits are hotly disputed, is not a pretty one.