"We labored for at least two decades to persuade the rest of the world that we are a paper tiger. We succeeded, and the world is acting...
Decline of U.S. Strength Perception
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Foreign Affairs
Renewal of National Will
"The masters of the Kremlin are not ten feet tall, and there is no objective reason why they must prevail. America's resources are as vast as...
Soviet System’s Unsustainability
"Soviet society is simply too incongruent with the realities of human nature and the laws of economics to survive indefinitely … As the noose of...
Influence of Witness Book
"It is not too much to say … that Witness is the beginning of wisdom for those who would truly understand the problem of American Communism. It is...
Motives Behind Foreign Aid
"Certainly the motive cannot be frugality; Congress is capable of squandering ten times $222 million in a single afternoon. Nor is there even any...
Advice for the Soviet Collapse
"Encourage the ailing Soviet system to (1) sit down, (2) lie down, and (3) die, in that order. It has started to sit down. This is not the time to...
Spy Scandal Irony
"General Taylor, we have all enjoyed your witty remarks on the vicissitudes of ‘our party,' and the medal you evidently feel Senator McCarthy has...
Communists in U.S. Government
"Certainly it is possible to overstate the role that Communists in government have played in perverting America's policy during the past thirty-five...
Weaknesses of Communism
"because it is based on a fundamentally inadequate and mistaken concept of man's nature, I believe it is doomed to final failure—for the same reason...
Losing the War in Iraq
The first big step of Barack Obama's administration, and quite possibly its defining achievement, will be abandoning America's military involvement...
Russia’s Move Into Georgia
I hope my six-decades-long reputation as a redoubtable Cold Warrior will protect me from the suspicion that "Rusher has gone soft on Moscow" if I...
The Democrats’ Dilemma on Iraq
The Democrats now find themselves in a thoroughly uncomfortable dilemma over Iraq. Back in the early days of the American invasion, when things were...