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...critics contends that by turning over any cash at all to the Iranians, the U.S. is paying ransom to the kidnapers and setting a potentially disastrous precedent. Says Michael Ledeen, editor of the Washington Quarterly: "I don't think we should reward criminals with money." Adds Edward Luttwak, a foreign policy expert at Georgetown University: "By saving 52 lives, we sacrificed diplomats all over a world riddled with half-crazy governments." This view is also heard abroad, though mostly in nongovernmental circles. The Swiss newspaper Journal de Genève asserts that the agreement "suggests to the entire world...
...Sisco, former Assistant Secretary of State: "If you start with the assumption that we have already been humiliated, on the whole our negotiators did the best job possible." The fundamental argument of Sisco and other critics is that the U.S. should never have bargained with Iran at all. Says Luttwak: "What's wrong with this deal is precisely that there was a deal. There is a much deeper principle involved: you should not negotiate with terrorists. When you bargain, you violate a principle that is more than 2,000 years old"-the sanctity of diplomats...
Second, would Reagan as President surround himself with a range of advisers who would temper his hawkish tendencies? The evidence is otherwise. His task forces drawing up foreign policy options include such hawkish advisers as William Van Cleave, a defense expert from the University of Southern California; Edward Luttwak, a leading theoretician of the right; and Richard Pipes, a Harvard history professor who is strongly anti-Soviet. Of late, he has been advised by more experienced and moderate voices as well, Henry Kissinger being a noteworthy example. But there is little doubt that Reagan would use U.S. military power abroad...
...fight off even a limited Soviet thrust is questionable. Indeed, if China buys modern weapons from Europe, or possibly the U.S., the 190 divisions of the People's Liberation Army may have to wait a long time to be outfitted. Says Georgetown University Military Analyst Edward N. Luttwak: "The total inventory of American ground weapons of the Army and Marines, of the active forces and reserves, would not be enough to equip the Chinese army with modern weapons...
...Edward Luttwak, 35, adjunct professor of international politics at Johns Hopkins University and senior fellow at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. The author of books and articles ranging from analyses of arms control and the Middle East to the strategy of ancient Rome. Luttwak has earned a reputation as one of the U.S.'s most creative and provocative defense experts with a generally "hawkish" approach...