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Carter's attacks on the Soviets represent a major policy change. Since entering office, the President has generally followed Vance's moderate approach of amiable cooperation with the Soviets. Indeed, Carter feels that he has gone more than halfway. He shelved the B-1 bomber. He deferred production of the neutron bomb. He toned down his human rights campaign a bit. He softened his initially tough SALT proposals...
...another Soviet success. And this is on China's own western flank. Peking is also thought to feel that Carter has been too eager to accommodate the Russians in the slow-moving SALT talks and to abandon or defer development of modern weapons such as the B-1 bomber and the neutron warhead...
...page manifesto shrilly criticized the "feckless handling" of the situation in the Horn of Africa, the abandonment of the B-l bomber, the withdrawal of ground troops from South Korea, the 'neverending series of gaffes" in Middle East policy, and the "placating" of militants in southern Africa. Charged the Republicans: "In 15 short months of incoherence, inconsistency and ineptitude, our foreign policy and national security objectives are confused, and we are being challenged around the globe by Soviet arrogance...
...getting away with too much in the world today and that, as last week's statement by the Republican Senators charged, the Carter Administration is to blame. Carter has undoubtedly made tactical errors in dealing with Moscow and may have been wrong to cancel the B-l bomber. But it is also too easily forgotten that tough talk and gestures do not amount to coping with Moscow. As far as local conflicts with the Soviets or their agents are concerned, post-Viet Nam America abhors any form of foreign intervention, and a President's means of dealing with...
About Carter's B-1 bomber and neutron bomb decisions: all the Russians have to do is be patient; in a few years we will be a defenseless, unionized, inflationary, welfare state...