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"We are at war. We are engaged in a titanic struggle in which the fates of nations are being decided. In war the fact that a surrounded garrison surrenders without any shots being fired makes its capture no less a military victory for one side and a defeat for the other. When the Soviet Union advances by using proxy troops, its conquests are still Soviet victories and Western defeats.
Since World War II, the Soviet military buildup has been continuous and the Soviet expansionist pressure has been relentless. Moscow has fished assiduously in the troubled waters left in the wake of the dismantlement of the old colonial empires. It has blockaded Berlin, fomented revolutions in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, aided aggression in North Korea and North Vietnam. It has trained and subsidized guerillas, disrupted elections, shot down unarmed planes, sponsored coups, shot refugees, imprisoned dissidents. It has threatened, blustered, connived, conspired, subverted, bribed, intimidated, terrorized, lied, cheated, stolen, tortured, spied, blackmailed, murdered--all as a matter of deliberate national policy. [Side Note: add in TREASON and you've pretty well described the Clinton Presidency...all kidding aside!!]
The basic rule of Soviet [and Lib'ral DemonRAT] behavior was laid down years ago by Lenin: Probe with bayonets. If you encounter steel, withdraw. If you encounter mush, continue. The question is which will the Soviets [and the Lib'rals] encounter: steel or mush?
The answer to that question lies with America's leadership. Not just the political leadership. What kind of world view the American President has, how well he understands the uses of power and the nuances of diplomacy, whether he has a strategic vision and the will and shrewdness to carry it out--all these are vital, even dispensable, elements. But more broadly, the answer lies with those segments of American leadership whose attitudes determine the limits of the possible for American policy.
Unfortunately, America is still suffering from the legacy of the 1960s. A rabid anti-intellectualism swept the nation's campuses then, and fantasy reigned supreme. Attacks on anything representing the established order were in fashion. The discords of that decade and of its aftermath critically weakened the nation's capacity to meet its responsibilities in the world, not only militarily but also in terms of its ability to lead."

(exerpted from Richard Nixon's "The Real War", pages 4-5)

This is the only Richard Nixon-authored book I ever read, and it was a dooozie!! Published in 1980--and apparently co-collaborated with West Coast Talk-show Host, Hugh Hewitt--this book provided me with my Basic Foundation of Knowledge as to the Political Fight Between Good and Evil, Right and Left, Conservatives and Lib'rals!! What a Divine Inspiration you are, my FRiend, JH2!!

Utmost FReegards...MUD