Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.
Rashid KhalidiRussia is not going to give up easily on Syria. They've had a relationship with that country since 1955. It's very close to them.
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