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That irony is not entirely consoling to the West. For one thing, even when Communists are fighting among themselves, their conflicts threaten to spread. The ongoing civil war in Cambodia, between the China-backed forces of Pol Pot and the Vietnamese puppet regime of President Heng Samrin could spill over into Thailand. A new outbreak of war between Viet Nam and China could embroil all of Southeast Asia...
...could be gaining the bridgehead in Iran that they have coveted for decades. The goal of the Soviets is to establish themselves so firmly that they can exercise a decisive influence on Iranian foreign policy or, in the case of a future political explosion in the country, install a puppet regime...
Indeed, any overt American military embrace would run the risk of smothering other U.S. friends in the Arab world, including Saudi Arabia. Riyadh already fears that it might be perceived by radicals as a puppet of the U.S. ? a worry heightened by Reagan's ill-conceived declaration last month that Washington would not let Saudi Arabia become "an Iran." The President never made clear how he would back up his unsolicited promise to protect the Saudi monarchy from internal or external threats to its power...
Asked if he or his government disagreed in any way on any issue with the Soviet Union, Karmal answered firmly, "No, not the slightest one." But he insisted that the coincidence of interests does not mean he is a puppet, nor does it make Afghanistan any less sovereign: "There is no power in the world that can crush the spirit of freedom of the Afghan people. It is in our nature to be free and to fight for our freedom...
Gossip is the layman's mythmaker and moralist, the small, idle interior puppet-theater in which he tries out new plays, new parts for himself...