A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.
We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
