Zitat des Tages über Entspannung / Detente:
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.
Without Kissinger's work in the Middle East, with Sadat especially, I doubt if the Camp David Agreements five years later would have happened. His achievements over detente, the seeds of trust he sowed in a very distrustful and hostile Moscow, helped over a long period.