Well, well, well. What have we here?
Please tell me that he has been a foreign policy advisor to the Clinton campaign.....
Los Angeles Times 6/8/99 James Pinkerton “...Quick quiz: Who once sang, “Imagine there’s no countries”? You’re right if you answered John Lennon. Now how about this: “Nationhood as we know it will be obsolete.” Was that the next line of “Imagine,” the late Beatle’s 1971 utopian anthem? No, those words were written by Strobe Talbott, deputy secretary of State for this particular nation, when he was still a columnist for Time magazine, on July 20, 1992. Yet, even if he can’t carry a tune, attention should be paid to Talbott. He is more than a paper-pusher: He was the top U.S. negotiator in the Kosovo peace talks, spending some 50 hours negotiating last week with Russia’s Balkans envoy Viktor S. Chernomyrdin and Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari to strike the accord, which as of this writing is still discordant...Talbott has left a plentiful paper trail: In addition to 20 years of work for Time, he has written, co-written or edited nine books about the Soviet Union and the Cold War. One theme runs through most of them: that Ronald Reagan, described in “Deadly Gambits” (1984) as a “befuddled character,” deserves most of the blame for the nuclear arms race of the 1980s. Indeed, in 1990, as his magazine dubbed Mikhail Gorbachev “Man of the Decade,” Talbott credited Gorbachev with revolutionizing not just the U.S.S.R. but the rest of the planet: “The Gorbachev phenomenon may have a transforming effect outside the communist world, on the perceptions and therefore the policies of the West.” ....If nothing else, Talbott expressed himself plainly: “All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances . . . they are all artificial and temporary.” He pointed to the then-emerging European Union as a “pioneer” of “supranational” regional cohesion that could “pave the way for globalism.” ....”