“By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.”
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During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.