Word: nato
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...NATO Expansion. Speaking of Europe, should America's sons and daughters die defending Warsaw, Prague or Budapest? Surprisingly, few outside elite foreign policy circles seem to care that America is considering expanding our European security agreement to include Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. Is greater piece-of-mind for those countries worth the risk of provoking a struggling and paranoid Russia? If Cold War-like tensions do arise once again, this decision--whichever way it goes--could become one of those fateful moments that historians will one day study and wonder "How could they have been so stupid...
...supported NATO expansion, increasingly military spending and greater American aid to Israel as the key to stability in the Middle East...
Chief accomplishments: Launched Marshall Plan, NATO; desegregated armed services...
...Guernica and painted the bombing of Guernica, developed cinema and television, built highways and wired the world. Not to mention the peripherals these produced, such as sitcoms and cable channels, "800" numbers and Websites, shopping malls and leisure time, existentialism and modernism, Oprah and Imus. Initials spread like graffiti: NATO, IBM, ABM, UN, WPA, NBA, NFL, CIA, CNN, PLO, IPO, IRA, IMF, TGIF. And against all odds, we avoided blowing ourselves...
Politically, he was also erratic. As Poland was struggling to be accepted into NATO, he suddenly proposed a "NATO bis," a shadowy "second NATO" for those in waiting. Not for the first time, his colleagues put their heads in their hands. His closest adviser was his former chauffeur, with whom he played long games of table tennis. He developed close links with the military and security services. His critics accused him of being authoritarian, a "President with an ax." In another historical irony, he was defeated by a former communist, Aleksander Kwasniewski. Walesa went back to Gdansk, to his villa...