re: #60 Destro

Maybe I am reading too many books on Byzantium, but that empire lasted 1,000 years playing off one enemy against the other. So I don’t get this new missionary zeal in diplomacy where we only negotiate with good people - statecraft is warfare without war.

With respect, that wasn’t what I was talking about. You mentioned 1973 and my reply was geared towards the situation at that time.