on foreign policy and the completion at times the two things seem like something that would make formulating the grand strategy awfully hard to do because as the government s change and people change, you can see the grand strategies going back and forth. .. if you think about the horrible first half of the 20th century was not only the great depression, the two world wars and think about how comparatively better the second half of the 20th century had done. i ve actually argued argued the cold war was hopeful because it showed the great rivalries could exist without a refugee great wars. i think that achievement is going to be remembered 500 years from now for a thousand years from now. the people who remember it is the avidity will go back and discover it has any not the only person, but certainly one of the really people who came up with the path by which that was achieved. be not well, professor gaddis, i feel that this is a perfect closing note, especially when you think