The Sixty Years War

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Advance copy from the December 6, 2010, issue.

8:54 PM, Nov 24, 2010 • By STEPHEN F. HAYES

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The people of the entire world are listening to what we’re saying, to our promises, our commitments and our speeches. But we live in a real world, not a virtual world. We say: Reductions must be made. And President Obama has even said: ‘I dream of a world without [nuclear weapons].’ Yet before our very eyes, two countries are doing the exact opposite.

And what have the repeated offers for dialogue produced? Sarkozy answered his own question.

“Nothing.”

—Stephen F. Hayes