But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.
But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.
We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.
Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
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