Alliances Work

In a negotiation, you're only one side. The other side has has to tango also, right? Yes? But at some point you always are deciding where you're going to draw the line. At our height, the korean war could have gone into world war three, but that was a decision keep it limited. Likewise, in 56, when the hungarians rose up, eisenhawer made a very specific decision that defending the hungarian people wasn't worth nuclear annihilation of the entire world. So alliances work. But alliances are not biblical texts that must be followed fundamentally. They are fluid, and we must decide when and where,. If we were id logs, then the