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Vance mentioned Carter only once, with words of praise for his energy program. He never mentioned his pugnacious rival. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, at all. But he must have been recalling past arguments in Washington when he warned a Harvard commencement audience of 25,000 against "a dangerous new nostalgia," a "longing for earlier days, when the world seemed, at least in retrospect, to have been a more orderly place, in which American power could, alone, preserve that order." U.S. armed forces "must be modernized, and they will be," said Vance, in order to "preserve the global military balance...
Reagan and his aides are expecting a recurrence of a traditional paradox: conservative Republicans with impeccable anti-Communist credentials have got along better with the rulers in Moscow than have liberal Democrats. Cracked a Soviet official recently: "At least we can be confident that Reagan would not invite Brzezinski to stay in the White House." As though to encourage just that sort of thinking in Moscow, Allen says, "While Reagan would be firm toward the Soviets, he would also be consistent and prudent; he would not be truculent or confrontational...
AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY under Zbigniew Brzezinski is returning to its state under our last realpolitik, government-professor National Security Adviser: a nearsighted, bipolar view of the world which cares less about a nation's welfare or common interests with us than about its value in the life-or-death wrestling match between the two superpowers. In a world that has a third arena no one can ignore, the stupidity of such a view could be fatal. Looking at developing nations merely as pawns in the game against the U.S.S.R., with a blind eye to their internal affairs, is what first...
...dismiss Brzezinski as a hothead...
...Muskie has Polish ancestry too. Let's hope, for the sake of a consistent foreign policy, that he and Brzezinski are not Poles apart...