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...fearful President Reagan is not sufficiently sensitive to the consequences of excessively isolating the Soviets. We need to give them hope that through negotiation and peaceful competition we can strive for accommodation. If that hope is removed, they might be induced to lash out and use their enormous military capability. It would be suicidal but it is a possibility. That is why it is so counterproductive for the President to imply that we are militarily inferior to the Soviet Union. We are not, but this claim tends to weaken the confidence of our own people, shakes the foundations...
Sadat would be much more willing to strive for a comprehensive agreement, while Begin would probably want to limit what might be achieved, because he was more satisfied with the status quo and was very leery about giving up any control over the West Bank or the Israeli settlement area in the Sinai. Sadat was strong and bold, very much aware of world opinion and of his role as the most important leader among the Arabs. I always had the impression that he looked on himself as inheriting the mantle of authority from the great pharaohs...
...players astronomical demands are logical extensions of capitalism--in a free economy, everyone scrabbles to get as much as he or she possibly can. But these demands actually result in a perversion of capitalism where the workers/players strive to climb to the plateau where the owners/management stand. In this set of circumstances, thoughts of socialism cross one's mind...
...world governments that try to control the employment and investment policies of U.S.-based multinational corporations. Even these initial steps would encounter the criticism that they promise great financial costs and no benefits for Americans. But we must control our own tendency toward nativism during hard economic times and strive for a more balanced immigration policy...