Our differences regarding enlargement do indeed remain deep, even after you were generous enough to teach me a number of things in your well-crafted letter — in particular, what you call the “central syllogism” of European security.

I thought Mark Danner’s essay, “Marooned in the Cold War,” made a strong case against NATO enlargement, cogently presenting the negative arguments.

Three years have passed since I stood in a tiny market in Sarajevo, notebook in hand, gazing through a chaos of smoke and running feet at the scores of dead heaped about the blood-slick earth.