The trust Europeans, and the rest of the world in general, had placed in America’s foreign policy is gone. And it is the lack of trust that now marks relations between the US and Europe.

The possibility of Libby being indicted, and the whole Cheney angle, … is all about proving in some sense that they were wrong and therefore that we who opposed the war and never thought the...

I don’t think we’re so wary about war. We’re wary about being misled. We’re wary about costs of a war that didn’t have to be waged.

The way in which the leak investigation is being pursued is becoming a symbol of who was right and who was wrong about the war.

NATO’s future is very much at stake, … NATO may in fact no longer be the instrument of European security and will become increasingly marginal in the foreign polices of its major members.

Clearly, people like me who believe that ground forces are necessary in order to win the air war have been proven wrong. At the same time, I remain convinced that if we had done what...

NATO’s future is very much at stake. NATO may in fact no longer be the instrument of European security and will become increasingly marginal in the foreign polices of its major members.

It is the Serb army right now — the Yugoslav national army — that is ethnically cleansing whole sectors of Kosovo in the south, in a manner very much reminiscent of Bosnia, … The question...

He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get rid of him but at the same time we are not willing to take the...

The interesting question is why the Bush administration has decided to reverse course. Part of the answer, surely, lies in the fact that reality demonstrated the limits of its revolutionary foreign policy.

I think she’s proving the adage that where you stand depends on where you sit. It’s moved her to a situation where the only tools are talk and travel. She can’t send military in. Her...

The whole reason for a threat is to show there is a line. And show that the U.S. will respond if he crosses it.

In some notable ways, the new strategy document represents a return to the foreign policy of Bill Clinton.

One of the remarkable things about Macedonia is that it is the only republic that has emerged out of Yugoslavia in which there is a multi-ethnic government.

This has the makings of classic conflict, … The American view is to lean towards independence; the European Union will say, ‘Let’s figure out a way not to make that decision’; and the Russians on...

Clearly Clinton made a gamble — the gamble that you could go to war without calling it a war. That you could use force without using ground troops. That you could fight a major fight...

Clearly it would have been much better if (NATO) didn’t have to bomb Montenegro because we would have made the distinction between Montenegro as the kind of power (western countries) would like to see …...

The clearest losers are the Serb people who withstood an week bombing campaign in order to overcome the policies of their leader. Clearly the Kosovar Albanians are big losers. Thousands, if not tens of thousands...

The Russians want to be an indispensable player in the Balkans. But they know they can only do that if they use their power wisely. They know that calling on Milosevic to cancel the second...

We are not in a state of war with anybody.

The overt message is that preventing nuclear proliferation is important.

The easiest way for Milosevic to have a face-saving way to change his mind is for the Russians to be the messenger, for the Russians to say, ‘We’re willing to participate in this force, and...

The president has no incentive, political or otherwise, to talk about withdrawal now. He’d want to talk about it after we succeed in some significant way.