Prediction is difficult, especially about the future.
We don't live in a world that really looks anywhere like the world when I was a kid.
I think it's the Japanese. And the Japanese working with the United States can balance off exactly the threat that you have been talking abo...
I think this sense in Moscow that the United States championing democracy and human rights is an attack on the legitimacy of the Putin gover...
So how can we expect that the mullahs are going to look at that as a sign of friendship?
Had Ronald Reagan not done that it would have been a sign of weakness.
The mullahs think we are weak because we are not siding with their enemies.
We are now in a position where you have a North Korean regime that may be a nuclear armed regime soon.
We subsidized the North Korean nut cases, and now we are on the verge of having them threaten us with nuclear weapons as well.
Well, unless we came in and decided, like Ronald Reagan did, to support people who are going to try to overthrow that regime.
Instead in Korea, our approach has been to subsidize this wacko, lunatic regime that now threatens the world with nuclear weapons.