The Great Enemy Of Any

The Great Enemy Of Any Totalitarian Regime Is Normalization And Trade.

The Fact Is ... That When Totalitarian Nations Like China And Saudi Arabia Play Ball With U.s. Business Interests, We Like Them Just Fine. But When Venezuela's Freely Elected President Threatens Powerful Corporate Interests, The Bush Administration Treats Him As An Enemy.

Nuclear Weapons Are Inherently Threatening To All Of Civilization. If That Had Been A Nuclear Weapon At The World Trade Center, Even The Most Primitive Kind Of The Hiroshima, Nagasaki, You Wouldn't Have A Manhattan. There Wouldn't Be A Democracy Of Any Kind In America.

Eisenhower Provided The First Break In The Cold War, By Bringing Khrushchev To The United States, In Humanizing The Soviets; And Then Nixon, By Making The Opening To China; And Then Reagan, Even Meeting In Reykjavik With Gorbachev And Acknowledging That Nuclear Weapons Are A Horror. So I Won't Accept That Republicans Just Escalate. Republicans, At Least When They Were More Moderate, They Were Maybe Even More Isolationist, They Sometimes Brought Sanity To The Debate. We Don't Have That Now. We Have - All These Republicans Have Gone Off The Neoconservative Deep End.

What Passes For Investigative Journalism Is Finding Somebody With Their Pants Down - Literally Or Otherwise.