Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equally critical theme for Will is "The War Against the Totalitarian, 1939,"--a war he helps wage with some of his most eloquent passages. Limiting his attacks to the Soviet Union, except for an occasional potshot at Iran. Will incessantly argues against maintaining any political, economic, or cultural relationship with Russia. "Since November 8, 1917, every assumption adopted, every premise clung to by people eager to rationalize a policy of accommodation toward the Soviet Union has been shredded by events." Searching, as he does with all subjects, for the historical coincidence to add meaning, he notes wryly that "Solzhenitsyn finished...
...Falkland situation, the United States helped pave the way for Argentina's transgression of accepted codes of international law through its kid-gloves treatment of Argentina's repressive regime, the consequence of the Reagan Administration's fundamentally fallacious distinction between authoritarian and totalitarian dictatorships. Its vision clouded by its bipolar world view, the Administration tailed to show Argentinas just how seriously it takes violations of human rights or its most recent flouting of diplomatic standards...
...Reagan was out campaigning, and the people were just growing sick, morally sick, over the consequences of having liberal Jimmy Carter in office, over the consequences of having liberal policies, leftist policies that were not really helping poor people who are not dealing with the threats of the totalitarian movement. It was giant wave, and of course this wave is going to come over campuses; it came over during the elections, and even the little trickle that's come onto Harvard...
...verified without on-site inspection, which Moscow has always resisted. Beyond that, a President pushed into negotiations with Moscow by the force of a populist movement, even in the name of a morally just cause, would be at an enormous disadvantage in trying to deal with leaders of a totalitarian society who knew in advance the limits of his maneuverability...
...hydrogen bomb and a Reagan Administration science adviser: I hope [the nuclear-freeze movement] will not become an important force. I hope more sense will prevail. If the nuclear freeze goes through, this country won't exist in 1990. The Soviet Union is a country that has had totalitarian rule for many hundreds of years, and what a relatively small ruling class there might do can be very different from what a democratic country can decide to do. The rulers in the Kremlin are as eager as Hitler was to get power over the whole world. But unlike Hitler...