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...West Bank Palestinians are understandably furious over Begin's proposals. Anwar Nuseibeh, a former Jordanian Defense Minister who is now an attorney in East Jerusalem, argues that the plan calls for "a perpetuation of the present occupation without our consent." In the current bitterness, the forthcoming negotiations on Palestinian autonomy, to be attended by Egyptian, Israeli and American officials, are dismissed by virtually all West Bank Arabs as irrelevant...
...SALT II treaty represents something of an advance over the SALT I treaty of 1972. Though it fails to limit the qualitative arms race, allowing both sides to improve and replace their current arsenals, it does, for the first time, place a ceiling on how many strategic nuclear delivery vehicles can be constructed...
...must note that this is a change in our foreign policy. Current U.S. foreign policy is tied implicitly or explicitly to the defense of many other nations--South Korea, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Australia, to name a few. Our military capabilities are global because our foreign policy commitments are global. This has been true since World War II when we became the leading nation of the West, and it continues to be true...
...must also take issue with Mr. Walker's deceptive use of numbers in an otherwise objective presentation. It is often said about military analysis that how you count determines what you will find, and this is seen in the following quotation from Mr. Walker's article: "The current (military) budget is higher than any other period of U.S. history excepting World War II and Vietnam. It is higher now than during the Korean War and in the past fifty years of relative peace...
Furthermore, to compare current military expenditures to the period before World War II is not entirely honest. Before World War II, we were an isolationist country whose total ground forces numbered less than 300,000. We relied on Great Britain and France, the "Great Powers," to keep the military balance in Europe. Even BSG admits they cannot do this alone today. The military needs of such an isolationist foreign policy cannot be compared with the needs of a global power--even a limited one as BSG advocates. Mark F. Cancian...