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Brzezinski and his traveling mate, Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, were in the midst of a week-long trip to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Their mission: explaining the new Carter Doctrine of throwing an American security blanket over Southwest Asia and the Persian Gulf to the two states in the region most vital to the West. Their first stop was Islamabad, where a week earlier Foreign Ministers of 35 Islamic states had issued a ringing condemnation of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...tied to our national security interests, which are tied to intelligent interests for the United States, that are tied to energy interests, which are tied to a sound economy here in the United States and an energy policy that is going to free us from heavy dependence to the Persian Gulf countries and to OPEC, which is strongly, which has the strength and the support of the American people, and which is predictable and certain, which has a down side to it in terms of disincentives to the Soviet Union for actions which are contrary...
...demands for greater military preparedness. Later, he listened to other critics from the Coalition for a Democratic Majority. He heard citations of history, reminders of his misconception of Soviet intentions, recitations of our military inadequacies. "We're committed," he said about the assertion of U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf. "If we have to, we will do it alone...
...long as the rebels are still fighting, most U.S. and British military analysts doubt that the aging, innately conservative Soviet leadership would contemplate an extension of the invasion eastward into Pakistan or southward to the Persian Gulf. The Carter Administration, however, can hardly afford to take a chance on that. Accordingly, it dispatched a series of official missions to Southwest Asia and the Middle East last week in an effort to gain support for the President's regional security proposals...
...with the support of its allies, would presumably be prepared to go to war with the U.S.S.R. over the Persian Gulf, which supplies 60% of the West's oil. A Soviet attack on Pakistan would be something else; it would, and should, be costly, from Moscow's point of view, but would not necessarily lead to American or British intervention. Thus Washington's present intention is to help Zia ward off Soviet border forays rather than arm Pakistan against a Soviet invasion-an eventuality that Western strategists do not think likely...