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...relevant. Defeat in Vietnam did not prevent the U.S. from maintaining close cooperative relationships with other regional countries, including Japan, South Korea and the Philippines. Nor did it stop the U.S. from forging sometimes productive ties with Vietnam's backers (including China and what was then the Soviet Union) or, with the passage of time, with Vietnam itself. Today Asia is the most dynamic part of the world, and the U.S. is a central participant in that dynamism...
...under Jimmy Carter, the longtime Democrat, who did not formally switch parties until 1985, became publicly known as an ardent anticommunist and one of Ronald Reagan's closest foreign policy advisers. She helped Reagan distinguish between unfriendly Marxist "totalitarian" regimes and acceptable, rightist "authoritarian" ones; lambasted targets from the Soviet Union to the U.N. Security Council; and in a speech at the '84 Republican Convention, dryly derided Democrats as the "blame America first" party. In her later years, she remained a leading conservative voice and rallied for a formal declaration of war after 9/11. Of her Reagan-era positions...
...Realpolitik" dictated, for example, that the Soviets' downing of a Korean airliner in September 1983, killing 269 people, was not allowed to significantly interfere with business as usual. And "realpolitik" eventually paid off - at least for the West - as the Soviet Union disappeared a few years later without a shot being fired. Today, "realpolitik" has given way to "realeconomics" - who cares if Moscow bumps off its citizens in Chechnya or elsewhere as long as the oil and natural gas are flowing from Russia? The West reacts most loudly when its investments in Russia are endangered...
...Daniel wrote about the recent dissolution of the Soviet Socialist Republics,” Seward wrote in an e-mail. “The piece probably could have run in the Economist with minor editing to correct for the spelling of Gorbachev...
...expected this week, perhaps as early as Wednesday. Levin was one of those who voted against Gates when he last appeared before the Senate for confirmation hearings - after George Herbert Walker Bush picked him to be CIA director in 1991 and critics accused him slanting intelligence to suit anti-Soviet hardliners during the Reagan administration. Levin threw out only one softball question about those old charges - which Gates easily handled. Levin was far more interested in how Gates would deal with Iraq...