I Cite These Events Because I Think

The Eastern Europeans Invested Too Many Of Their Hopes In The Notion That Somehow Or Other The Missile Shield, Even If Directed At Iran, Would Reinforce Their Security Links With The U.s. Vis-à-vis Russia.

Hard Power Makes Sense Under Some Circumstances. But There's Not A Universal Solution To Global Problems. A Major Country Like The United States Has To Have A Broadly-conceived Program For Effective International Action, Influence And Cooperation With Others.

Palestinian Terrorism Has To Be Rejected And Condemned, Yes. But It Should Not Be Translated Defacto Into A Policy Of Support For A Really Increasingly Brutal Repression, Colonial Settlements And A New Wall.

Regret What? That Secret Operation Was An Excellent Idea. It Had The Effect Of Drawing The Russians Into The Afghan Trap And You Want Me To Regret It? The Day That The Soviets Officially Crossed The Border, I Wrote To President Carter. We Now Have The Opportunity Of Giving To The Ussr Its Vietnam War. Indeed, For Almost 10 Years, Moscow Had To Carry On A War Unsupportable By The Government, A Conflict That Brought About The Demoralization And Finally The Breakup Of The Soviet Empire.

What Is Most Important To The History Of The World? The Taliban Or The Collapse Of The Soviet Empire? Some Stirred-up Moslems Or The Liberation Of Central Europe And The End Of The Cold War?