Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

A lot of people tend to think I'm a dogmatic ideologue, which I'm not.

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

As far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different.

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.