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...arguments against both licenses were the same Massachusetts law provides for this issuing of licenses "only to serve public need and to protect common good," said Gregory M. Kennan of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, a local community group The Square has enough liquor selling restaurants to serve the need, he added
Last Stands, Hilary Masters ∙The Nuclear Delusion, George F. Kennan...
...Kennan believes that American leaders have excessively "militarized" policy toward the U.S.S.R. partly because they have "dehumanized" their Soviet counterparts. He views the Politburo as "a group of troubled men-elderly men, for the most part-whose choices and possibilities are severely constrained." They are driven by a paranoid, secretive and conspiratorial view of the world rather than by a master plan for its domination. He urges more and closer analysis of Soviet objectives and less preoccupation with Soviet capabilities. Despite the vast numbers of tanks and missiles in the Warsaw Pact, Kennan argues, the U.S.S.R. has "no intention...
Nevertheless the Kremlin has every intention, if possible, of neutralizing Western Europe and driving the American military presence from the Continent. Kennan is too sanguine about the extent to which Soviet power has been-and might be again-an effective instrument of intimidation. But he is quite right that strident, bellicose countermeasures have played into the hands of the Soviet propaganda and diplomatic campaign to split NATO...
...demonization of the Soviet enemy and the militarization of the American response have reached their apotheosis in the Reagan Administration. It sometimes seems to Kennan that we are "already in a state of undeclared war-an undeclared war pursued in anticipation of an outright one now regarded as inevitable...