This paper, entitled Devising a Sound U.S. Policy Toward an Elected East German Government, evaluates the implications of recent national elections in East Germany and offers policy prescriptions for U.S. decision-makers in addressing thiscriticaljuncturein German history.
Do we want to look back decades from now and recognize that at thiscriticaljuncturein history, America, through its inaction, cemented its future on the dust heap of former world powers, including the Roman, Ottoman, British or Soviet empires?
But, it is nonsense that Don Rumsfeld bears exclusive responsibility for our problems or that changing this horse in war's midstream will do other than complicate the military's role at a criticaljuncture.