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...basic objectives and priorities began to blur about 15 years ago. That was the time, at the height of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society flourishes, when the polls began showing that increase in public alienation. "Lyndon Johnson forgot to ask for a tax increase to pay for the Viet Nam War," Boiling says wryly, "and that was the breaking point. In the absence of a broad overall concept, people retreated to their own interests. Society became fractionalized, and the interest groups exacerbated that. No President and no Congress can reorganize the Government now without a great deal of support...
Americans rejoiced in the Inauguration Day liberation of the 52 hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Nonetheless, Iran threatens to succeed Viet Nam as a symbol of American frustration and impotence. American diplomatic support and military backing could not prevent the fall of the Shah, who for decades seemed the paragon of a U.S. friend overseas. Then came the humiliation of the embassy seizure, the burning of American flags, the ritual chanting of "Death to the great satan!" by mullah-led mobs. Recent years have spawned an array offerees seemingly inimical to American interests, ranging from the extortionist pricing...
...assumptions, ideals, doctrines and instrumentalities on which it relied for decades to protect and advance its interests no longer seem to work very well -if at all. American diplomatic efforts, with few exceptions, have ended in frustration. Henry Kissinger's attempt to negotiate "peace with honor" in Viet Nam produced neither peace for Indochina nor honor for the U.S. (in part, because Congress blocked him on some key issues). The Camp David peace accords, one of President Jimmy Carter's few foreign policy achievements, have foundered on Israel's refusal to consider an agreement that would provide...
...result of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, its clubfooted interventions in Angola and Ethiopia, and its support for Viet Nam's subjugation of Laos and Cambodia, the U.S. has new openings in the so-called Nonaligned Movement. Afghanistan was a founding member of the movement 26 years ago; the Soviet invasion there was a devastating setback to Fidel Castro's attempt to achieve permanent leadership for Cuba in the movement and to establish a kind of godfather status for the U.S.S.R. as the natural ally of nonalignment. States as diverse as Burma, Mozambique and Guyana...
With a combination of propaganda, economic assistance and diplomatic massaging, the U.S. should be able to exploit these openings. Even Cuba and Viet Nam, Moscow's principal hit men inside the Nonaligned Movement, may some day be receptive to efforts by the West to lure them into positions more independent of Moscow and into roles less troublesome in their regions...