Samuel Berger Europeans Quotations

I think there continues to be serious skepticism and questions in Europe about national missile defense. I think it would be a good opportunity for a president to say, 'We're going to slow down the pace here, we're going to try to really decide what the most important threat is, how we're going to proceed' and not try to ramrod something either through the Europeans or without regard to the consequences for Russia.

We have a tremendous opportunity right before us now to finish this job in this area. But that's going to take not just grudging American presence and kind of confusing signals about whether we've got one foot out the door. It's going to take real American participation with the Europeans to try to continue to stabilize the situation and ultimately bring Southeast Europe into NATO.