Word: ideas
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...glance, adding former Warsaw Pact allies of the Soviet Union to the ranks of the triumphant NATO alliance seems a good idea. After all, the argument went, these were the captive nations, now freed, and they deserve the advantages of membership, including the guarantee that an attack on any member will be considered an attack on all of them...
...idea was first planted with Clinton in April 1993 during a Washington ceremony to open the Holocaust Museum. With time on their hands before the speechmaking, Vaclav Havel and Lech Walesa, the Presidents of the Czech Republic and Poland, cornered Clinton to urge that NATO admit East European countries. Havel and Walesa had got nowhere with George Bush on the idea, but Clinton, in office only three months, was intrigued...
...Republican Contract with America backed expansion. But White House polls during the 1996 campaign showed that enlargement wasn't a litmus test for the 21 million Americans of East European descent. The poll Clinton paid more attention to showed that foreign policy successes improved his re-election chances. "The idea that Reagan brought down the Berlin Wall, Bush unified Germany, and Clinton will unite Europe sounded good at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," says an aide...
...Russian Federation is part of that community too. The idea that an enlarging NATO can contribute to Russia's own long-term security--which the alliance leaders firmly believe--is, to put it mildly, not self-evident, certainly not to the Russians (or, for that matter, to critics of enlargement in the U.S.). Yet as enlargement has moved forward, NATO and Russia have developed an increasingly close relationship. In May, at a landmark meeting in Paris, the leaders of the alliance and President Boris Yeltsin signed the NATO-Russia Founding Act. It lays the basis for a solid, growing partnership...
...Many of us are saying "Why do this," said UCLA Professor of Political Science Frank D. Gilliam. "I do not think it is a good idea...