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...more hawkish American and Europeans, No First Use offers the promise of increased conventional military strength, though critics of the proposal correctly point out that a conventional build-up will be extremely costly and unpopular. However, any increased reliance on conventional rather than nuclear weapons lessens the danger of Armageddon, and that should be worth the financial burden...
...forget 1967. Amid a mounting Arab arms build-up, and amid new and extremely hostile calls to "drive the Jew into the Mediterranean," Israel chose to strike first, and caught the Arab countries unawares. Aggression again? Of course...no nation should have the right to protect itself from the perceived threat of imminent destruction...
With calls for a nuclear freeze and unilateral disarmament growing, it is time to dispel the illusion that the Soviet Union is a peace-loving nation (as Andropov would have us believe) arming itself merely in response to a Western military build-up. For two decades, military spending as a component of GNP steadily declined in the West as the component of military expenditures allocated for personnel costs continued to rise. The opposite was true in the Soviet Union where its people were forced to make even greater sacrifices of national income to finance the greatest military build...
...with real problems have been duped by ruthless dictators with silver tongues. To maintain themselves in power after the initial takeover, the North Korean Communists have stirred up a hatred of the South and of the United States. This legitimatizes their iron hold on the country and their repressive build-up of force. But on the other side, American "containment" has given the North the perfect excuse for repression--genuine fear. If "containment" can be limited to exactly that and the North Korean people can be convinced of it, them perhaps progress can be made. This progress could include...
...American missiles--which the West Europeans first urged us to bring--strategic musings about nuclear war fighting, the casual remark about nuclear war of the first year or so of the Reagan administration, or the Reagan military build-up which created the neutralist climate in West Germany. The deepest crisis, especially among the young, the leftish intellectuals, and the Protestant Churches, is a moral one. The peace movement is part of a larger romantic, anti-modernist impulse which in turn draws its inspiration and main themes from two sources first, the effect of a political and cultural assault on liberal...