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...issue brought about an angry confrontation between the Secretary of State and Jeane Kirkpatrick, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., who had argued that the U.S. should avoid taking sides in order to protect its relations with Latin America...
...United Nations Security Council. "Aggressive and destabilizing actions against Nicaragua by the U.S. Administration have been dramatically on the rise," Ortega insisted. But he called reports of American willingness to negotiate "encouraging" and added, "We are willing to begin immediately direct and frank conversations." U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick described Ortega's charges as "paranoid and ridiculous," but reiterated the U.S. commitment to negotiate. She cited a five-point U.S. plan, outlined by Enders last August in Managua, that includes a mutual nonaggression treaty and an end to Nicaraguan support of Salvadoran rebels...
...point, Dan Rather asked Jeane Kirkpatrick, Reagan's starchy Ambassador to the U.N., to judge press coverage of Central America ("Give me both barrels, don't hold back"). Kirkpatrick: "I think CBS has been particularly bad, if I may say so." The New York Times and Washington Post also got low marks from Kirkpatrick. All three, she said, "suffer from the Viet Nam syndrome." That phrase is also used by Reagan, apparently to describe a press that doesn't believe its Government and "challenges what we're doing." The President told TV Guide: "Had that been...
More compelling is an argument that Sontag hints at, an argument actually developed is more detail by Jeane Kirkpatrick in her infamous Commentary article. In trying to differentiate between totalitarian (left-wing) and authoritarian (right-wing) dictatorships, Kirkpatrick said the later were more susceptible to change for the better, in part because they exercised less complete control over social and economic aspects of life. Jaruzelski's seeming success has robbed much of the wind from the sails of those who pointed to Solidarity and hooted at her hypothesis. If Sontag's repeated use of the term fascism has power...
...serious consideration of the stance will examine both its veracity and its implications, but first a superficial criticism: Professor Huntington devotes a good portion of the end of his book to justifying the sort of foreign policy that led to our involvement in Vietnam, a tortured agglomeration of Kirkpatrick-like nonsense and absurd historical claims. For example, he says that 1967, when 500,000 U.S. troops were in Indochina marked the "high point of democracy and political liberty in Vietnam." Clearly, Huntington labors under a simpleminded deception that confuses "elections" with freedom. Huntington is a brilliant man, like most...