You are having a quiet enough dinner with friends, or spending a Saturday afternoon with your family. Then someone asks. There is no right time; no matter what the occasion, it’s a bit awkward. And you try to come up with an answer that at once is simple, but complete; one that gives witness to … Read more
From a highly unlikely source comes a grave warning to those who shape U.S. defense policy. The warning: America’s shrinking fleet of nuclear-armed submarines may be visible, now or in the near future, to the Soviet Union. The source: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who in a post-summit news conference made the following statement about prospects … Read more
President Reagan and Vice President Bush continue to assure the skeptical that any arms treaty they support will be “verifiable.” What their loyal supporters need to explain to them is that verification isn’t the issue. The issue, as Reagan aide Fred C. Ikle once put it in an article for Foreign Affairs, is this: “After … Read more
Ronald Regan just hurled the ultimate accusation one politician can make against other politicians, saying that Judge Robert Bork’s political foes in the Senate have “politicized” the question. Actually, the Bork nomination was political from start to finish. The surest sign comes from Democrats frantically urging the president to withdraw Bork’s name without a fight. … Read more