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...invasion of Afghanistan was widely interpreted in Washington as confirming Brzezinski's more sinister view of the Soviets. It could just as well have been seen as confirming Vance's view that with detente on the skids, SALT in limbo and anti-Sovietism resurgent, the Kremlin would figure it had little to lose by invading. Then last month came the clash between the two old rivals over the wisdom of the raid to rescue the hostages-and that ended the struggle...
From almost every corner last week, Ed Muskie was warned about the problem that Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's National Security Adviser, would create for him. If it wasn't Brzezinski himself, it was that damnable job that kept getting in the way of Secretaries of State. Unless, of course, like Kissinger, one controlled both jobs...
...sent private word that Muskie must establish and hold a very special relationship with the President or the Secretary would falter as an architect of U.S. foreign policy. That relationship, Kissinger suggested, might demand such a simple thing as making sure that Muskie saw the President every morning before Brzezinski was allowed into the office. The Secretary of State, not the NSC aide, should set the direction and tone of the day's doings in the world. "That means Muskie had better arrange an appointment at 5:32 a.m. when Carter is in his shower," suggested one wag familiar...
...pragmatically at the outset, then caused him to overreact when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Carter's lack of an intuitive grasp of how to deal with the Soviets, combined with his righteous wrath over their misbehavior, has made him all the more susceptible to what Vance sees as Brzezinski's excessive reliance on punitive policies...
...Afghanistan sanctions, but he believes that the U.S. must start talking to the Soviets again about how to rebuild détente and save SALT. However, he recognizes that perhaps first there had to be a clearing of the air, an end to nonstop stories about his feud with Brzezinski, and a resolution-in favor of the Secretary of State -of who is the President's principal foreign policy adviser...