JEWISH VIRTUAL LIBRARY: At one time the tribe of Reuben must have been in danger of extinction, since Deuteronomy 33 has only one short verse on it, and that, a prayer for its survival (Deut. 33:6).
Михаил Горбачёв: Like many other similar projects at its heart lay the exaggeration of a threat and poorly defined geopolitical ideas. To that were added unrealistic attempts to democratize a society made up of many tribes.
SHAO XIA: Like the former Soviet Union, the United States is currently in great trouble.
VALERIE M. HUDSON: This is the turning point where academic debates over whether America is in decline are put to rest because the horrors on the ground have revealed the extent of our incompetence and our venality for the whole world to see.
