What Americans cant face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.
Robert D. KaplanThe Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.
Robert D. KaplanIt is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.
Robert D. KaplanWhile the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in a conflict in Syria โ half a world away from the United States โ more than 47,000 people have died in drug-related violence since 2006 in Mexico. A deeply troubled state as well as a demographic and economic giant on the United Statesโ southern border, Mexico will affect Americaโs destiny in coming decades more than any state or combination of states in the Middle East.
Robert D. Kaplan