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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question marks are now out of date and therefore out of place. Gorbachev is already doing the things spelled out in the litany of conditional clauses. This fall the prestigious London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies solemnly concluded that the unilateral cuts that Gorbachev has already announced "will, once complete, virtually eliminate the surprise attack threat which has so long concerned NATO planners." In November the Pentagon said virtually the same thing. That certification is all the more meaningful coming from two organizations that have long believed such a threat existed not only on paper but in the real...
...West and even some in the East agree that the alliance is necessary to help handle the dislocations, instabilities and potential conflicts that are almost sure to attend the disintegration of communist rule in the East. But NATO is at best a stopgap until something more up-to-date and effective can be devised to take its place. The Western alliance was invented to maintain the standoff between two giant blocs. But the great ideological divide of the Iron Curtain is giving way to messier divisions among nation-states and nationalities within states. NATO is simply not constituted or equipped...
...full invasion, forthrightly telling Bush that "there is no way this operation is not going to result in casualties" among both U.S. servicemen and Panamanian civilians. Bush listened and then simply said, "Let's do it" -- by far the most fateful three words of his presidency to date...