Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
The elderly are useless eaters.
These new and old major powers face still yet another novel reality – in some respects, unprecedented. And it is that while the lethality, the lethality, of their power is greater than ever, their capacity to impose control over the politically awakened masses of the world is at a historic low. To put it rather bluntly, and I was flattered that the British foreign secretary repeated this, as follows: namely, in earlier times, it was easier to control a million people than physically to kill one million people; today, it is infinitely easier to kill a million people than to control a million people.