» "The fear was that this thing in the center of Europe, if it were allowed to become unified, was going to be a cancer once again and lead to Act III of the great European tragedy," said Robert E. Hunter, a senior adviser at the RAND Corporation and an ambassador to NATO under President Bill Clinton. Instead, Mr. Hunter said, "the German problem, which emerged with the unifying of Germany beginning in the 1860s, is one of the few problems in modern history that has been solved."
Nicholas Kulish, With Wall Just a Memory, German Divisions Fade, for The New York Times, November 8, 2009. Via.