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...Your two most excellent articles-"Giant in a Snare" [Jan. 15] and "The U.S. Gets a Policy"-are certainly as fine summaries as possible of the situation facing our nation today and the solution we have adopted . . . We are finally facing reality and accepting the responsibility that our position in the world demands...
...issue of Jan. 15, TIME noted ("Giant in a Snare") that the misnamed "Great Debate" had gotten tangled in pessimistic, defensive perimeters and loops. But events and decisions were already on the march, and the "Great Debate" petered out like a story told by a man who gradually realizes that nobody is listening...
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...Giant in a Snare" [TIME, Jan. 15] is the finest summation of our current predicament that has been published. Keep it up and you may even wake up Washington...
...bluntly, it seems to me that the snare that holds us is fear - fear of losing our allies, fear of the future judgments of history, fear of getting hurt ourselves. Where would America be today if the Pilgrim Fathers had let this kind of fear dictate their actions? As the signers of the Declaration of Independence said, 'For the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.' It was a solemn pledge of all they held dear...