American Views Abroad

Almost daily there is another anniversary being remembered in the media: the start of the Cold War as well as the Berlin Airlift 60 years ago, Prague Spring and the 68 Student Movement 40 years ago. Spiegel International has a Cold War interview with ex-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in Both Sides Were in the Grips of Insanity .....Things have not changed.

Schmidt: The greatest strategic challenge in the 21^st century is not terrorism but rather the population explosion and the growing cultural conflict between the West and the Islamic part of the world. These problems could produce mass migrations and possibly even wars.

www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,562315,00.html