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...arrival of a so-called successor generation ol young West Europeans ignorant of immediate post-World War II history, thus uncertain of U.S. policy and fatalistic about Soviet power. Third, the Soviets are grappling in Eastern Europe with perhaps their most intractable problem, the growth of nationalism and dissent. Said François-Poncet: "If the Soviets could deal with a West European partner that would detach itself from the U.S., it would help them impose a solution in Eastern Europe." He wondered if the SS-20 program was simply the mechanistic reflex of the Soviet military establishment or part...
...nuclear monopoly it may not have always acted in a perfectly virtuous fashion, but it did support and defend freedom throughout the world, and it managed to keep the peace. In the light of the invasions of Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968) and Afghanistan (1979), the crushing of dissent in Poland, and the unleashing of Cubans upon Angola and Vietnamese upon Cambodia, who would have preferred to see a Soviet nuclear monopoly in the years 1945-49, or would like to see Soviet superiority in the future? Eric Stocked...
...ability to dissent is of course just as important as the freedom to put forth an idea. But violent protest is more often than not counterproductive. Those who attacked Kirkpatrick unwittingly played into her hands: Now kirkpatrick can ignore the very legitimate criticism of her policies by attributing criticism to disruptive radicals and kooks...
Other means of dissent can get a point across adequately-listen before or after a presentation, leaflets, silent protest with posters letters to newspapers. Granted, such tactics do not have the immediately discernible, effect of radical disruptions. But they also lack their drawbacks: and, in the long run, they tend to prove more successful...
...recent "poor Jeane" statement, endorsed by the majority editorial above, errs seriously in unilaterally dismissing such forms of dissent. Shouting down a public official can be rude and intolerant, even detestable, but it occasionally can be a legitimate form of political expression. Such is the case when opponents have no other means of gaining significant public attention--and particularly when the public figure in question has so blatantly disregarded the principles of freedom and tolerance as to invite similar behavior...