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I don't think it makes a lot of difference. Most of their discussions have been pretty far off the point there, rattling their sabers when the real issue is restoring confidence at home and setting a foreign policy abroad that can regain the respect of other countries and

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provide the kind of leadership that we need. We're all just talking about the past. The real question is the human species going to survive with nuclear proliferation, with ecological collapse as a as a possibility by the end of this century, with the resource depletion and and

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the threat to the environment. I'd like to see America taking the lead and setting forth on a variety of issues and doing so in a context of respecting the differences in the world and the right of people to determine their own future. And that's not the

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way it is. What we have now is an old chessboard philosophy that each time one of the pieces moves left and then we get a reaction and one that's relatively superficial and off the point. And I'd like to try to change that.