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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.

If A New President Personalizes A Rather Different Concept Of America And A Different Sense Of America's Mission In The World Than Has Been The Case With President George W. Bush, Then That Almost Automatically Will Help To Improve America's Global Image. But The Tangibles Involving The War And The Economy Are Not Going To Be Easy To Fix.

We Cannot Have That Relationship If We Only Dictate Or Threaten And Condemn Those Who Disagree.

There Is An Element Of Delusional Obsession In The French Political Elite's Preoccupation With The Notion That France Is Still A Global Power.

Sovereignty Is A Word That Is Used Often But It Has Really No Specific Meaning. Sovereignty Today Is Nominal. Any Number Of Countries That Are Sovereign Are Sovereign Only Nominally And Relatively.