Confrontation must be avoided, engagement must be embraced. When I made mention of a possible larger threat our policymakers were incredulous. One professor from the National War College became very upset when I suggested that our current policies were paving the way to a nuclear world war. Countries decide policy on a rational basis. And clouds are made of cotton candy.
Big wars are a thing of the past.
We are the lone superpower. If they are right in their analysis the future of humanity looks good. And I hope they are right, even though this would make me look like a major fool. Better a fool in paradise than a wise man in hell. But sadly, at the Bush Center I detected signs of group hypnosis among the professors who surround the former president and his CIA friends.