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Until the mid-'80s, the root cause of East-West tension -- the repressive, predatory nature of Soviet communism -- was nonnegotiable. The old men in the Kremlin refused to brook "interference in the internal affairs of the U.S.S.R.," and they would not accept meaningful constraints on Soviet international behavior. That left little to talk about, except how many warheads should be allowed to dance on the head of an intercontinental ballistic missile...
...past two weeks, for the first time since exercises began in 1969, the U.S. Army in Europe went through its paces without tanks and almost without combat troops. Faced with mounting German annoyance, multimillion-dollar damage charges and the collapse of East European communism, commanders turned to microchips and game boards for training and did their best to keep out of sight...
Allied commanders say they must stay alert because the Soviet Union still has formidable forces across the crumbling East-West divide. "Yes, communism is proving to be a failure, but the fact is that the Soviet army hasn't retreated," says General Crosbie E. Saint, commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe. "They have taken some old equipment out, some second-echelon stuff, but not much has changed as far as we're concerned. It isn't over, over there...
...other words, all of us who thought that there is a positive role for government intervention in a market economy were shamefully mistaken. To Brookes and his ilk, the failure of communism means that any government intervention in the interest of social justice is economically and morally bankrupt...
...words of an old Polish proverb, "Under capitalism man exploits man, whereas under communism, the reverse is true." The solution for Eastern Europe lies somewhere in between, in a system with private ownership of capital, private capital markets, active labor markets, social security and government by the people. In other words, the answer is social democracy...