Dimitri Simes Quotes
The principle problem is the belief that democracy is the talisman for all the world’s problems.
This view is held by many in the Islamic world, but also includes extreme right and left wingers throughout the world and of all religions.
Dimitri Simes, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, President, Nixon Center, Quoted on CNN Late Edition, January 4, 2004
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When ambassador to Great Britain, he was very supportive of the British Fascists, and was an admirer of Adolf Hitler. Once war with Germany was commenced, Kennedy predicted that England would lose the war and became a fascist puppet state controlled by Germany. He opposed Lend Lease and the other efforts of the Roosevelt administration to assist England to fight off the Germans. Ironically his oldest son died in a dangerous volunteermission fighting Germany in the War. Kennedy's earlier pro-German views ended his political career and was an embarassment to his sons when they entered politics.
Dimitri Kostantinovich Simes (Russian: Дмитрий Константинович Саймс b. 1947) is the president and CEO of The Center for the National Interest and publisher of its foreign policy bi-monthly magazine, The National Interest. Simes was selected to lead the Center in 1994 by former President Richard Nixon, to whom he served as an informal foreign policy advisor and with whom he traveled regularly to Russia and other former Soviet states as well as Western and Central Europe.
