Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happen to agree with President Carter that the danger to our country is the gravest in the modern period," said Kissinger. "We are sliding toward a world out of control, with our relative military power declining, with our economic lifeline increasingly vulnerable to blackmail, with hostile radical forces growing in every continent, and with the number of countries willing to stake their future on our friendship dwindling." To reverse these trends, said Kissinger, the U.S. must grapple with four interrelated issues...
...Balance of Military Power. It is shifting so rapidly against the U.S., said Kissinger, that in a future confrontation "like that in Cuba in 1962 or the Mideast alert in 1973, it will be the Soviet Union which will possess the quantitative superiority in strategic weapons." The danger, he said, "is less an imminent nuclear attack on us than an increased Soviet willingness to run risks in local conflicts." In such cases, said Kissinger, Soviet superiority in conventional arms could no longer be offset by a credible threat of U.S. nuclear retaliation. "The present Administration has compounded the problem...
...single American boy has died because of any of his orders. This attitude obscures the fact that his uncertain trumpet has surely encouraged the Cuban mercenaries in Africa, the Soviet dislocations in Ethiopia and the invasion of Afghanistan. All produced death and suffering for others. Now we are in danger of being pushed toward a conflict that could horribly mock Carter's self-righteousness...
...Government's attempts to create a risk-free economy, in which there will never be a danger of serious business slumps or steep unemployment, has built an inflationary bias into society. Managers and workers have become confident that the state will intervene to stop any sharp business decline. Thus, instead of restraining wage or price demands when the economy slows, companies and unions continually push for more. Adam Smith maintained that each individual seeking his own profit would promote society's good, as if guided by an "invisible hand." But the late economist Arthur Okun argued that the comfortable relationship...
...investment in export industries, the nation has held taxes low and scrimped on domestic spending. Housing and such basic necessities as roads and urban sewer systems remain inadequate. Demands for improved public services are bound to intensify, and that could lead to higher taxes, slower industrial growth, and the danger of growing disputes over how the country is to spend its riches...