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...found-with some nudging by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Testifying before the Senate committee, Kissinger called the 90-plane allotment for Israel "the very lowest end of the spectrum." In armament discussions between Israel and the Ford Administration, he said, the number of fighters being considered was "several orders of magnitude above this...
...leaving open future development of the neutron bomb at a more convenient time. He said last week that his final decision would depend on the Soviet Union's degree of restraint in the arms race over an unspecified period of time. Thus any new Soviet escalation in nuclear armament could provide a back-handed justification for the resumed production of the neutron bomb. And here lies the real issue: the ultimate decision should not depend on outside influences, but should stem rather from Carter's professed concerns about nuclear proliferation...
...Well," I said, "let us go over what you're saying. The equipment you have supplied us with is not up to date; you made us lag behind Israel in armament by a long way, and still I proceeded to fight, and-here we are. I am winning! What sort of friendly relations would you call this? Isn't it high time we buried the past and opened a new chapter...
...there are people who tell us that the nations of this Western World cannot defend their own coasts, in the same breath that they assure us that American moral support, and surplus armament, and possibly a few men, if it should ultimately prove necessary, can turn the tide of a lost war, 3000 miles from home against the mightiest military machine the world has known. Both of these statements are fantastic nonsense. Our moral support will not wreck a single tank nor check the explosion of a single shell, and as for economic support...
Despite domestic opposition, recent indications of Soviet willingness to negotiate significant armament restrictions offer an important opportunity for Warnke when the talks begin again next month in Moscow, but much will depend on administration support. Recent actions by Carter and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown offer little reason for hope. Although Carter's amendments to the Ford defense budget promise certain reductions, they are achieved primarily by stretching out purchases of new weapons systems like the B-1 and the M-X rather than aiming for permanent reductions. If these "reductions" are meant as signals to the Soviet Union...