American Foreign Policy
America's role in international politics and global governingAMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY: THE NEXT 25 YEARSMr. Raymond Price, President of The Economic Club, New York City_______________________________________________________I'm delighted to be here, and I was certainly flattered when Noelasked me to deliver this inaugural lecture in the Mary Belknap series- partly because of my admiration for the FPA, but especiallybecause of my respect and affection for my friend Mary Belknap.She has done so much to make this institution what it is today, andshe's such a warm and wonderful human being. Mary, thanks soAnd Bob, thank you for those very kind words. I alsoappreciate your kind mention of my former boss and mentor, andfriend for the last 27 years of his life, President Nixon. I canremember when there were fewer such words..FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION Considering tonight's announced topic, the next quartercentury, that time frame does, for me, have a certain resonance. Itwas just over a quarter century ago - on August 9, 1974 - thatPresident Nixon became, rather abruptly, a former president.So before I get to the core of what I want to talk about
And just emerging, as we were, from theGreat Depression, we still were hardened by hardship, steeled byneed; we hadn't yet been softened by a generation-long wallow in anethos of self-importance and self-indulgence. Whether, steeped as we are in a culture of escape andfantasy, we can recover a sufficient sense of reality, together with thesustained mental and spiritual discipline we'll need if we're toanalyze, confront and overcome what will be the realities of the nextquarter-century. But how long will we stay awake? How soon before we againstart nodding off?We've applauded the overture, been mesmerized by Scene I ofAct I, but will it hold our attention through Acts II and III?. Next tothat, at this point, all else becomes secondary. Each new discovery broadens the base of knowledge on whichothers can be built. Just put it in the next draft, and I'll do it. FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION Bin Laden, the Taliban and their associated terror networks areto our age what Adolf Hitler was to my parents' age. What they feared was not America's presence, but theprospect of its absence. And it's not just a matter of providing informed consent. His point, of course, is that if we're now serious about winning awar on terrorism, we once again need such an offensive covertcapability, and that specifically that we need the kind of peopleDonovan and Casey - who himself had been Donovan's right-handman - recruited for it.
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