What Americans can't 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.

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically.