Word: brzezinsky
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Risks & Costs. Supporting Bundy were Polish-born Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, director of Columbia's Research Institute on Communist Affairs, and the Rand Corp.'s expert on Asia, Guy J. Pauker. On the critics' side were the University of Chicago's German-born Political Scientist Hans J. Morgenthau; ex-Foreign Service Officer Edmund O. Clubb, chairman of Columbia's Seminar on Modern Asia; and Michigan State University Anthropologist John D. Donoghue, who recently spent two years in South Viet Nam's villages...
...some time now, but seldom before have they so clearly articulated the points on which they differ. In last week's New Republic Political Scientist Hans J. Morgenthau contends that escalation is dooming the U.S. to an all-out war. In a recent New Leader, Political Scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski maintains that escalation is just what is needed...
...Paper Tiger. "The Cuban missile crisis," writes Brzezinski, "offered a basic lesson in international politics. The U.S. assured the Soviets that it will react if pushed too hard-that there is legitimate merit in maintaining international stability." When the U.S. hesitated to act in Viet Nam, the Soviets forgot the lesson and thought the Chinese correct in labeling the U.S. a paper tiger. "It was in this context that the Soviet leadership began to show renewed interest in North Viet...
...Major Soviet intervention seems dubious," continues Brzezinski; "symbolic gestures, involving military aid and 'volunteers' are more likely." By assisting the North Vietnamese, Russia would be "getting involved in a theater in which the Soviets have no effective military establishment and would therefore be dependent on Chinese good will for their logistical and strategic support. The ultimate beneficiaries would be the Chinese. There is little reason to believe that such magnanimity and philanthropy will characterize Soviet foreign policy...
...wind doesn't stop." Contemplating the supposedly scattered deployment of U.S. strength in the world, Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper observes: "That scattering has saved the world situation up to now-it has stopped many a Communist adventure." Says Columbia University's Zbigniew Brzezinski: "The real problem is not overextension but nonassertion of leadership by America. The U.S. is still the No. 1 power. As such, it can't turn away from the responsibilities of its power because things around us are said to be too complicated...