You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.
Rashid KhalidiThere's absolutely no reason for NATO to be sticking its fingers up the nostrils of Russia at every orifice. I mean, it's absurd. It's absolutely absurd.
Rashid KhalidiRussia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.
Rashid KhalidiPresident Bush Sr. and Secretary Baker, way back when, told Gorbachev, "We are not going to advance NATO into Eastern Europe. We're not going to - we're not going to advance NATO into East Germany, if you allow the unification of Germany." Where is that pledge? Where is the logic behind a military alliance, devised in the time of communism, before the Berlin Wall fell, now being in the Ukraine, in Poland, in Estonia, in Latvia and Lithuania? I don't understand.
Rashid Khalidi