Every time Netanyahu took a step forward, as with the Hebron agreement, his governing coalition made him do something that drove a wedge between Israel and the Palestinians. Bob Dole wanted to make a deal to reopen the government, and after a couple of days so did Newt Gingrich. So we’ve tried to lay in a framework for dealing with cyberterrorism, bioterrorism, chemical terrorism. I lit a candle for Mother at Kazan Cathedral, now fully restored from the ravages of Stalinism, and visited the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church in the hospital.
The standard for measuring results domestically should not be the coherence of the process but how actual lives are touched and changed. While the UN was discussing nonproliferation, the Middle East exploded again. The anguish with which you and your friends debated our actions in 1969 was painful for you then and, I am sure, the resurrection of the issues during the campaign reopened old wounds. He also never allowed his ego to get in the way of good decision making.
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