Quote De Jour

"To maintain this position of disparity (U.S. economic--military supremacy)... we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day--dreaming.... We should cease to talk about vague and... unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standard and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts.... The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better." - George Kennan [Director of Policy Planning U.S. State Department 1948]