Security policy is about making choices.
However, with the end of the Cold War, many in the West were tempted to believe that the need to make hard decisions had disappeared. It seemed that the critical choice had been made by others - specifically by the nations to our east who had joined with us to build a Europe whole and free. With everyone apparently opting for the same community of values, the establishment of a new European Security Architecture seemed like an easy task. But this was not to be. Indeed, today we are facing a number of difficult choices, not only on Bosnia, but also in the enlargement process and in the development of our relationship with Russia.