July 10, 2006
The end of TIME
or at least the end to what the Lefties call "Cowboy diplomacy." This is coming from a magazine that once ran a piece in the Eighties by one Strobe Talbott who opined that the Reagan Adminstration's "zero-option" (no deployment of cruise missiles and Pershing II rockets to Western Europe in return for withdrawal of Soviet nukes east of the Urals) was a loser. The Soviets balked at the zero option and walked out, we deployed the nukes and in 1985 the U.S. and the Soviet Union signed the INF treaty which provided for the removal and destruction of such weapons. Who was Strobe? Well, he was Al Gore's roommate at Harvard and went on from TIME to become Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State.
Posted by LMC at July 10, 2006 07:46 PM | TrackBackIt was also good old Strobe who opined that East Germany did not want to merge with West Germany, that they had and were proud of "their own identity."
Posted by: Miriam at July 12, 2006 01:59 PM
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