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Carter and his aides have carefully kept Reagan and his advisers informed of developments in foreign policy and, at critical junctures, tried to win their support. Jack Watson, Carter's Chief of Staff, consults regularly with Edwin Meese, Reagan's top counselor; Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's National Security Adviser, talks frequently with Richard Allen, Reagan's chief adviser on foreign affairs and the man likely to become his National Security Adviser. As a result, insists Watson, "there is no paralysis. There is no breakdown in our capacity to react...
...talk, Sullivan reiterated, sometimes sarcastically, his criticism of Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Carter, and blamed internal Carter administration "scrapping" for what he termed a paralysis in U.S.policy towards the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlevi in the final stages of his rule...
Sullivan and Brzezinski gave conflicting advice in late 1978, when opponents of the shah were uniting in massive demonstrations. While Sullivan says he recommended the U.S. prepare for the transition to a new Iranian government, Brzezinski reportedly urged that every measure--including massive displays of force--be employed to keep the shah in power...
...There was an assumption in Washington that the U.S. seemed to have far greater power and manipulative control over the situation in Iran than we actually had," Sullivan said Wednesday. Because of the varying statements coming from Brzezinski on the one hand and State Department officials on the other, the U.S. "spoke with not only an ambivalent voice, but an actively internecine one" on Iran...
After "Life During Wartime," different artists picked up the now-successful theme. But the concern with war reached an obsessive pitch only with this fall's album releases--records that went into production last winter and spring, as Zbigniew Brzezinski posed in the Khyber Pass and American helicopters crashed in the sands around Tabaz. Some examples...