USA and the rest of the world: the power of prestige or the prestige of power?
In the early 60s, I, working for General de Gaulle, managed to make my small contribution to stopping the useless and bloody Algerian war. This experience was useful to me later, in the 70s, when, as an adviser to the Rand Corporation, an authoritative American organization for strategic analysis, I wrote a certificate calling on the Americans to resolve the conflict in Vietnam with the same dignity and constructiveness as General de Gaulle managed to resolve from the Algerian crisis.
