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We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised. ”

Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset. ”

To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone. ”

But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media. ”

All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia. ”

Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems. ”

It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. ”

I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security? ”

The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side. ”

America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs. ”