As The Family Goes, So Go The

What Is Not Discussed, Will Not Be Advanced.

Secrecy Is For Losers.

What The Press Never Does Say Is Who The Leaker Is And Why He Wants The Story Leaked. Yet, More Often Than Not, This Is The More Important Story: What Policy Wins If The One Being Disclosed Loses?

The Soviet Union Came Apart Along Ethnic Lines. The Most Important Factor In This Breakup Was The Disinclination Of Slavic Ukraine To Continue Under A Regime Dominated By Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia Came Apart Also, Beginning With A Brutal Clash Between Serbia And Croatia, Here Again 'nations' With Only The Smallest Differences In Genealogy; With, Indeed, Practically A Common Language. Ethnic Conflict Does Not Require Great Differences; Small Will Do.

It Is Perhaps Common In The World For Individuals And Nations To Suffer For Their Noble Qualities More Than For Their Ignoble Ones. For Nobility Is An Occasion For Pride, The Most Treacherous Of Sentiments.