Can I Be Blunt? Yes. Can I

We Must Be Honest In Acknowledging That Neither Germany Nor The Us Has The Luxury Of Assuming That We Can Skate By On Half-measures In Afghanistan And Pakistan And Not Risk Suffering The Consequences.

Peace, Prosperity, And Democracy Cannot Endure If Imposed From The Outside. We Should Cease To Make False Distinctions Between Peacekeeping And Prevention; They Are In Fact Inextricably Linked.

The Larger Picture Here Is That A North Korea With Nuclear Weapons Adds To The Larger Proliferation Risk.

We Know That Weapons, Heavy Weapons Continue To Flow Across The Border From Russia Into Ukraine. And We Have Now, In Recent Days, Indications That Russians - Russian Military Units Themselves Have, On Occasion, Fired Into Ukraine.

We Can't Let Others Judge Information For Us.