Thursday, March 30, 2006

No one's laughing at this deja vu all over again

Sister Joan Chittister, OSB, in the National Catholic Reporter on how she learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb.
Why have we suddenly abandoned the decades of deterrence and containment that guided U.S. foreign policy and out-waited the cold war for over 50 years? The U.S. prospered under it; the world balanced on an unsteady peace for years because of it; talks went on unceasingly during it until understanding increased and alliances formed and bonds developed and old enemies outgrew their enmity as a result of it.

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