Global alliances are needed to save the world from itself
I GREW up in the shadow of the Second World War, and at the dawn of the Cold War. My father’s work as a foreign service officer gave me an opportunity to see history up close in a searing way: I will never forget walking the beaches of Normandy with him and seeing the burned hulks of Higgins’ boats still on those shores, just a few years after so many young men went to their graves so the world could be free.
Likewise, I will never forget the eerie feeling of riding my bike through the Brandenburg Gate from West Berlin into the East, and seeing the contrast between people who were free and those trapped behind the Iron Curtain.
