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...That will risk alienating the Chinese people. Obama should take a lesson from the Cold War: American Presidents criticized Soviet leaders while demonstrating respect for average Soviets - and winning Soviet hearts and minds in the process. Obama could make clear that any China critiques apply only to the leadership; one way would be to simply replace mentions of China with references to the Communist Party in every State Department report. At the same time, he could boost U.S.-China person-to-person links by expanding student visas, opening more U.S. consulates in interior China and restoring State Department visitor...
...Pulled aboard the coast-guard vessel one by one, each man looks around, eyes wide with fear, shivering from the cold. One of the Greek sailors, who wears plastic gloves and a headlamp, speaks to the men in broken English. "Where you from?" he asks. Eventually, one softly responds. "Afghanistan," he says, and the others repeat the word. None have identity documents. It's past 1 a.m., and the coast-guard captain estimates the raft left the Turkish coast four hours earlier. The men have rowed more than halfway across the strait, a few hundred yards into Greek territorial waters...
...live peacefully in the "common house" of Eurasia, especially after two hot world wars and one cold one, is of course a perfectly rational desire. But a desire is not a strategy, and that is where Europe sells itself short. The E.U. has a population around three times larger than Russia's. Its GDP dwarfs Russia's by a factor of 12. And the 27 members of the E.U. heavily outspend Moscow on defense...
...that this is the way things were going. But we’ve had occasions in the past in which things seem to be going a certain way and then didn’t. The whole question of independence in Africa, for instance, was drowned one morning by the Cold War. So people who had followed Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, his exploits and where he seemed to be going, were suddenly disappointed. So this, I couldn’t avoid some such feeling, remember Nkrumah, or remember something. But this went on to the end. So the first thing...
Somalia's lack of government and extreme poverty make it an ideal breeding ground for piracy, and the Cold War's end helped make that possible. "I can remember driving down the roads in Somalia, and you'd see all these scrap heaps of MiGs and tanks" from the 1969-1991 reign of Siad Barre, the Somali dictator allied with the Soviet Union, Zinni says. "During the Cold War, one side or the other kept authoritarian regimes in power who controlled this sort of thing...