We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
From Zbigniew Brzezinski
I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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.
But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
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