Word: absurdism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State George Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger persuaded Reagan to hold a meeting to discuss the NSC's proposal to sell arms directly to Iran. Six months earlier, when Weinberger received a CIA report favoring weapons deals with the Iranian army, he penciled in THIS IS ABSURD. Shultz also objected to arms sales but believed that the U.S. should consider pursuing a dialogue with Iran...
...Secretary of Defense learned of the Iran initiative in June 1985, when the NSC suggested that "allies and friends" could supply arms to the Tehran regime. He opposed the idea, calling it "absurd." But when President Reagan authorized arms sales to Iran in January 1986, Weinberger instructed the Army to cooperate by making available the weapons requested by the CIA. First, however, he insisted on access to all intelligence relating to the operation. Weinberger continued to complain privately about the initiative, but -- unlike Secretary of State George Shultz -- never made his objections public. Like most other members of Reagan...
Democrats must ignore such nonsense. It is absurd to think that the Reagan Administration will be any more interested in arms control now than it has been for the last six years. On the contrary, Reagan has responded to this crisis by setting back arms control even further. In just the last week he exceeded the limits of the Salt II Treaty, voluntarily adhered to since 1979, apparently hoping that it would shift attention from the scandal...
...pretty absurd to think that there aremoderates in Iran," Mylroie said...
...charged that his government's efforts to reform apartheid were being ignored by other countries. In a ceremony that opened a medical center in Cape Province, Botha called sanctions "anti-South African legislation." He added that "the U.S. has already declared an economic war against us for the most absurd and sanctimonious reasons. In doing so, they have yet again taken up the sword against us on behalf of the Soviet Union and its goals in this region. I find it revolting." As others find apartheid, which is why the corporate exodus from South Africa is certain to increase...