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...control of proposing curriculum reform at West Point. But he never answers what such reform is for, aside from bet- ter fighting "the Soviets." It remains unclear whether, with the Coloradan in the Oval Office, the United States would continue to fight Communism in the outreaches of El Salvador and Nicaragua. We may, upon prodding, answer these questions too, but it is disturbing to imagine a president who, when considering domestic and foreign problems, reacts immediately for more jobs and better weaponry, without pausing to answer for whom and for what...
...difficult to read much of the [hemisphere's] press without concluding that the only intervention going on in the world is being carried out by 55 U.S. advisers in El Salvador. Never mind that there are several thousand [Cuban and East bloc] military advisers in Nicaragua. And 40,000 Cuban troops in Angola and Ethiopia. Never mind that there are well over 1 00,000 Soviet combatants attempting to impose a Communist regime on the unwilling people of Afghanistan. Never mind that U.S. rifles whose serial numbers identify them as equipment left behind by our troops in Viet...
...think the situation in El Salvador and Central America is a simple one. And I don't think I have to tell you that neither does my Government. We don't think that the problems there result simply from outside intervention. There are social and economic problems of long standing that must be resolved. We are seeking more economic aid for El Salvador than military aid. In Nicaragua, we would like to see . . . pluralism and representative democracy and freedom of the press. We do think that there is a chance for self-government to emerge in an area...
...Some administrators are afraid that the crowd manners of the '60s are on the way back. They may be. The operative logic then, as now, was what might be called the Doctrine of Overriding Outrage. This doctrine holds that the issue at hand-U.S. policy in El Salvador, for example-is too important to be left to the flaccid (two sides to every question) processes of free speech and calm discussion. Why tolerate ideas that are so obscenely wrong? History is not high tea. As the Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse wrote in his essay Repressive Tolerance, under...
...military attitudes and practices. It is not at all farfetched to suppose, for example, that an officer who has been exposed in his undergraduate studies to a Marxist analysis of Third World revolution will take a different, and probably more thoughtful, view of possible U.S. involvement in El Salvador than would a graduate of West Point or The Citadel...