We Cannot Have That Relationship

To Resolve Conflicts, Excessive Ambitions And One's Own Fears And Aspirationis Must Be Sacrificed.

Look At Islam In A Rational Manner And Without Demagoguery Or Emotion. It Is The Leading Religion Of The World With 1.5 Billion Followers. But What Is There In Common Among Saudi Arabian Fundamentalism, Moderate Morocco, Pakistan Militarism, Egyptian Pro-western Or Central Asian Secularism? Nothing More Than What Unites The Christian Countries.

Arab Nationalism, Which Tended To Be Until Relatively Recent Somewhat Secular In Motivation, Has Now Become Increasingly Religious And Fundamentalist. And That Makes It More Pervasive, More Difficult To Deal With.

According To The Official Version Of History, Cia Aid To The Mujahideen Began During 1980, That Is To Say, After The Soviet Army Invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But The Reality, Secretly Guarded Until Now, Is Completely Otherwise. Indeed, It Was July 3, 1979 That President Carter Signed The First Directive For Secret Aid To The Opponents Of The Pro-soviet Regime In Kabul. And That Very Day, I Wrote A Note To The President In Which I Explained To Him That In My Opinion This Aid Was Going To Induce A Soviet Military Intervention.

With Its Declining Population, With People Moving Out Of The Far East, With An Enormously Powerful China In The East, I Think The Real Destiny Of Russia Is To Become Closer To The West.