This man, Nicholas Spykman, was also

very concerned about who controls

Eurasia. He felt that the country that

controls Eurasia could well control the

world. And he had much to worry about

when he completed his very important

[music] work in 1943, the year he dies.

He's a a naturalized American citizen

from the Netherlands, then under Nazi

occupation, and he felt that the Nazis

had come really close to dominating

Eurasia in 1941. And here's what he

said, "Despite occupying the st uh the

safest position of any nation in the

world, we Americans have been involved

in two devastating world wars in the

space of a quarter of a century. And in

the second one, i.e. the ongoing one, we

are were one point at in serious danger

of defeat. The expectations of US

statesmen regarding the outcome of their

actions were consistently wrong. And

their thinking about national security

generally failed to provide successful

answers." Sound familiar?