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Just how far will Saddam Hussein's lust for power carry him? By provoking the first major military conflict of the post-cold war era, he provided the maiden test of the proposition that the U.S. and the Soviet Union can create more peace working together than apart. As recently as a year ago, such an incursion in the Middle East would probably have caused a fearsome rift between the superpowers. But in the summer of 1990, the Iraqi blitz prompted Washington and Moscow to act in stunning unanimity, each abhorring the raid and demanding, in an unprecedented joint statement...
Kohl, who has emerged as a leading architect of the post-Cold War Europe, insisted the United States must play a crucial role in turning the remnants of East Bloc communism into democracy...
...Gorbachev instead signed a joint statement to slash the numbers of strategic nuclear warheads, and they inked formal pacts to eliminate most of their arsenals of chemical arms and to verify limits on nuclear testing. Those, however, were old, well-worn issues; progress came harder on the newer, post-cold war problems. When they could find no common ground between the West's insistence that a united Germany be a member of NATO and Gorbachev's refusal to countenance any such arrangement, the two Presidents bucked the subject down to the ministerial level for further discussion...
Even friendly American-Soviet meetings can never be unimportant; the two nations are still the key players in constructing a post-cold war world. "When the President talks about 'Who is the enemy?' these days, he says it's uncertainty, unpredictability and instability," says White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. "Those are the enemies that both of these gentlemen will be dealing with...
...part of a post-cold war reordering of national priorities, a broadening of the definition of national security is apt. But so is at least a passing doubt about extending a frame of mind that in the past has not always aroused the nation's noblest instincts -- as the derivative term security risk can chillingly remind those who were around in the late '40s and the '50s. Do we really want cold war-type anxieties and constitutional indelicacies to be applied in nonmilitary realms -- in the environmental area, for instance, where restraints might be far more intrusive than military protectiveness...