Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the response was the Carter Doctrine -- a threat to oppose, with U.S. troops, Soviet encroachments on the Persian Gulf. Carter's successor had a better idea: he would provide arms to guerrillas battling pro-Soviet regimes. "Support for freedom fighters is self-defense," the President declared in his 1985 State of the Union address. The Reagan Doctrine was born...
WHEN Jimmy Carter announced an American boycott of the Summer Olympics of Moscow in 1980, it wasn't just the American athletes who suffered. NBC, in its abysmal pre-Cosby days, had picked a team of hundreds of expert television crews and invested thousands of hours and millions of dollars in training and preparation...
Clearly, Dukakis cannot win a Reagan-Carter or Reagan-Mondale rematch. But this does not need to be the essence of the election. Dukakis can salvage his campaign by launching a "populist counter-attack;" Bush is more vulnerable to this than is at first evident...
...defense issue by noting the hypocrisy in Bush's positions. Although Bush is fond of using the Midgetman and MX missles in his speeches, it would be somewhat awkward for him to explain why "his" Administration dumped the Midgetman in Congress as "too expensive," or why it scrapped Carter's plans to deploy the MX in the Southwest without offering an alternative, giving it a quiet death...
...behind the imperative, "Change." He cannot do this if he is constantly on the defensive. Put George Bush on the stand; seize the "populist initiative." This has to be Dukakis' gameplan through November or else he will lose as surely as Mondale did in '84 and Carter did in '80. Sunday night's debate will be Dukakis' best chance to get back on the offensive...