From a talk in 1991: The fall of the communist dictatorships of the Eastern Bloc was a kind of miracle that has no historical precedent. Never before were so many people affected by such radical change with so little violence. The miracles of the Gulf War were open miracles. The same Scud missiles that took countless lives in Iran were impotent when they struck their targets in Israel. The soldiers and officers of the allied forces saw inexplicable miracles in their victory. Other miracles took some thought to realize that they were miracles, that the laws of nature were not the only thing at play here. But anyone who saw what occurred...