Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late '70s, for example, the Soviets aggressively deployed medium- range Euromissiles designed to intimidate and neutralize Western Europe. It was a clear-cut challenge. The correct response was equally clear-cut: a NATO counterdeployment of comparable medium-range missiles...
Reagan and Thatcher and Kohl pulled it off. But not without enormous resistance from Western liberals and leftists. In America the resistance took the form of a nuclear-freeze movement that would have frozen Soviet missiles in place and frozen NATO...
...then some: they are talented, intelligent, hardworking men who rarely backstab or second-guess one another. They argue correctly that they have done well enough on the issues that affect the country's most vital interests, including Russia, the Middle East, relations with Japan, and the future of NATO. It is also true that Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti are intricate problems with no easy solutions. Yet the U.S. performance in each of these countries has been marked by vacillating objectives, bad staff work and a reluctance by any of the trio to take the lead in shaping policy...
...countries make little secret that what they want most is protection -- mainly against Russia. After the armed insurrection in Moscow last month, the Polish government's National Security Office publicly admonished, "Recent events in Russia are the latest indication of the importance and significance of our future membership in NATO." In private, senior Polish and Hungarian diplomats worry aloud about possible trouble not only from Russia, but also from a nuclear-armed Ukraine, which they say is "as dangerous as the Russians," and from Germany, which they still do not trust...
Does it make sense for the Warsaw Pact states to join NATO...