Robert Gates and Mike McConnell
Views on the future, hot spots, nuclear weapons, climate change
McCain and Obama…foreign policy
Breaking down positions on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and defense spending
Addressing Russia
To summarize: In the space of the last 30 days, Russia has violated the sovereignty of a democracy; made and then breached a solemn agreement, in a direct affront to the European Union; severely damaged its credibility and global standing; and undermined its own relations with the United States and other countries.
Today\’s World Order
Reinhold Niebuhr, who always warned against Americans’ ambitions and excessive faith in their own power, also believed, with a faith and ambition of his own, that ‘the world problem cannot be solved if America does not accept its full share of responsibility in solving it.’
Foreign Policy Today
Condoleezza Rice on Big Power relations; Elizabeth Economy on China, post-Olympics.
Solzhenitsyn: Yesterday and Today
“The clock of communism has tolled its final hour. But the concrete structure has not completely collapsed. Instead of being liberated, we may be crushed beneath the rubble.”