Word: enough
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Such questions are by definition unanswerable except with qualified guesses. What are the chances of rain tomorrow? Forty percent. Better take an umbrella. What are the chances of the Big One sometime in the next 30 years if you live along the San Andreas fault? High enough that you'd better check your insurance policy; make sure it covers acts of God. Gorbachev is to political earthquakes what matadors are to bulls. Wondering about what will happen to him -- or because of him -- is unlikely to inspire boldness in someone so naturally cautious and prone to overinsurance as George Bush...
...believes that, then it follows naturally enough that there should be no basic change in the main lines of U.S. policy. It was largely this logic and the smugness that went with it that earlier this year helped the Bush Administration rationalize its initial passivity in response to Gorbachev...
George Bush and Secretary of State James Baker are realistic enough to see that there is little the U.S. can do to "help" Gorbachev turn his economy around in the near- or even medium-term future. By the same token, there was never all that much the U.S. could do, or did do, to hurt the Soviet economy. The inertia, the wastefulness, the corruption -- these have always been inherent in the Soviet system. Therefore their consequences are self-inflicted wounds rather than the result of Western boycotts or other punitive policies. The imposition more than 15 years...
...credit, the Bush Administration has gone from asking what-if questions about Gorbachev to what-now questions about the American share of responsibility for transforming the military competition. But it would be easier to come up with a new answer to the perennial question about defense -- How much is enough? -- if there were a clearer realization that the old answer was excessive...