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...superpowers that I fear. It is the mindless belligerents like Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and the terrorists who terrify...
...past three years, as he has fought against internal challenges, Assad's regime has become increasingly bloody and repressive. In the region, he has aligned himself with two menacing Islamic nationalists, Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. By the time President Reagan announced his peace initiative last year, Assad was fearful of Israeli gains in Lebanon and disenchanted with U.S. diplomacy. In no mood for negotiations, Assad believed that foreigners had trifled with Syria long enough...
...years he has left the most shadowy of paths. It was rumored, but never proved, that he tried to bribe high officials in the Nixon and Carter Administrations. According to Justice Department officials, he consorted with Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. In August, Columnist Jack Anderson placed him in the Nicaraguan bush. A month later, NBC reported that he was masterminding a major drug-smuggling operation out of the Bahamas. But Financier Robert Vesco, who fled the U.S. in late 1972 after being indicted on charges of swindling mutual-fund investors out of $224 million, has not surfaced publicly since...
...Reagan Administration came to power dominated by hedgehogs determined to oppose the "one big thing" of Soviet military power and expansion. It tended to Infer Soviet control of whatever the United States government didn't like, for example the nuclear freeze movement, the Sandinistas, or Muammar Qaddafi. And since Third World outposts like Nicaragua or Libya or Angola were easier to get at than places like Poland or Afghanistan, why not concentrate on these places first? The problem, of course, is the inference of Soviet control. If Qaddafi or the Sandinistas or the Angolan leadership or the Syrians really...
...American warships shelling Lebanese villages, U.S. Special Forces on patrol with Honduran soldiers who shoot peasants, or "constructive engagement" of South Africa as the South Africans attack neighboring countries. Encourage, it. Send missiles to the Syrians, arms to Nicaragua through the American flotilla offshore, and--for hard cash--sell Muammar Qaddafi whatever he wants. Train a few hundred guerrillas to blow up oil tanks and airline offices in South Africa. Whenever an anti-American issue comes along, jump on the bandwagon. In the Falklands, trumpet principled support for the just anti-colonial cause of the Argentinean and Latin American peoples...