Word: hawkish
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...hand at the controls of the National Security Council, the White House has allowed the competition to ripen. Indeed, Weinberger has been "committing foreign policy," as he puts it, more vigorously than any Secretary of Defense since Robert McNamara two decades ago. The dissonance between Weinberger's generally hawkish views and the usually more moderate approach of Haig has sown doubt about the U.S. approach toward countries ranging from El Salvador to Poland, and nowhere more so than in the ever volatile Middle East...
...delay and disorder in foreign policy have brought mounting criticism. The attack last week that attracted the most public notice, and caused the most consternation at the White House, came from Henry Kissinger himself, an architect of detente who has grown more mistrustful of the Soviets and hawkish toward them since leaving office. In two articles for the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, Kissinger charged the Administration with failing to lead the West in the Polish crisis and with lacking a coherent approach to the world. Though he said, "I continue to believe that the Administration embodies...
...shooting war, or will one of those mysterious "threats to national security" do the trick? Clearly, it's a matter of when the political pressure in favor of a draft overwhelms the President's dubious enthusiasm for the all-volunteer force. With Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and his hawkish honchos on Capitol Hill gunning hard, a draft within the next several years wouldn't be at all shocking...
Some European officials are openly concerned about the quality of advice that Reagan receives from the men around him. They fear that the President's most hawkish advisers, notably Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and White House Counsellor Edwin Meese, may look upon the Polish crisis as a chance to loosen the Soviet grasp on Eastern Europe. Such a policy, in turn, might force Moscow to crack down even harder. Others claim to hear too many voices coming from the Administration. Says a peeved British diplomat: "No sooner does one U.S. official announce an attitude than within 24 hours another...
...West's dual response of sanctions and of turning the other cheek has only served to strengthen the hawkish elements in the Soviet Union. By accelerating the arms race, the United States has assured that the historically paranoid Soviets place their best resources and brains into the military, the only sector of the Russian economy that works well. Should the West boycott trade with the U.S.S.R. and its satellites altogether, a policy favored by some members of Congress, not only would Western Europe suffer if indeed it went along, but the West might push the Soviets to the economic brink...