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There was one glaring omission in Brown's blasts at the Carter Administration: never a word on either the broad trends or specifics of foreign policy. "There is time enough for that," Brown said. The fact is that Brown's background in foreign affairs is just about as bare now as Carter's was before he became President. Brown hopes to start catching up, with crash tours of China, the Soviet Union, Israel and Western Europe...
Bill: I can't take your word for it, Dick, because I have known particular individuals since 1965 in Iran, I can give you their names, who did get in touch...
...touch with them, and you're an official representative of the United States Government, it entails a commitment, and that is the hardest thing I know to control. I have been a practitioner of this art and you have not been, so take my word...
...would his proposed Islamic republic be based on Western models. "What the nation wants is an Islamic republic," he proclaimed. "Not just a republic, not a democratic republic, not a democratic Islamic republic. Just an Islamic republic. Do not use the word 'democratic.' That is Western, and we don't want it." When Khomeini concluded, the crowd's cheers filled the air for minutes...
Islam proved to be a liberating vehicle, although an ironic one, to Western eyes. There are several layers of paradox in the relationship between religion and revolution. The word revolution first entered the English language as a political term around 1600, and implied restoration of the old order. Later revolutions, like the French and the Russian, were explicitly antireligious, anticlerical. And yet revolution is almost always cryptoreligious in its vocabularies, disciplines and even operating psychologies. Revolution needs martyrs, saints, zealots, and almost always involves a rigorously ascetic ideal. Revolution, like religion, means faith and commitment, righteousness, intolerance, overriding goals, doctrine...