Word: moynihan
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Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Government and former U.S. ambassador to India, said yesterday he did not think Pakistan could win a war with India...
...balance of forces in South Asia is very much on the Indian said", Moynihan said. "I hope Bhutto wrote such a letter...
...urges Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who returned recently to Harvard after two years as U.S. Ambassador to India. In the March issue of Commentary, he calls on the U.S. to adopt a tougher stance toward the Third World. He excoriates Americans for an "extraordinarily passive, even compliant" policy that tries-but fails-to appease the developing nations by remaining silent when Third World leaders blame the West for famine and poverty...
...Moynihan says the world majority is now composed of nations that share a Socialist but not a Communist ideology, and a vested interest in blaming the West for their shortcomings and failures. The U.S. should therefore act as "the new [world] society's loyal opposition" and go on the offensive in three areas: 1) "forcefully" broadcast the achievements of Western liberalism such as the multinational corporation-"arguably the most creative international institution of the 20th century"; 2) assert that "inequalities in the world may be not so much a matter of condition as of performance," citing Brazil, Nigeria, Singapore...
Only by taking such a belligerent stand, writes Moynihan, can the U.S. "seek common cause with the new nations" and hope to reach a relationship "at the level of principle...