whistle-stopping through somebody else’s country, 
     usually ours.
          Washington has still not adjusted to this third-man 
     role. It keeps forgetting that anything said here may be 
     used by one side or another in some election campaign, 
     and that it may, by accident, be the decisive element in 
     the final vote.

     If the cold war in 1964 is being fought by informational 
technology, that is because all wars have been fought by the 
latest technology available in any culture. In one of his sermons 
John Donne commented thankfully on the blessing of heavy 
firearms:

          So by the benefit of this light of reason they have 
     found out Artillery , by which warres come to quicker ends