Capitol Ideas/No Timing Back
Bethell, Tom
some other subject of fascination. After Mr. Jackson there was Madonna. Soon even a Madonna undraped and featured in the pages of our leading porn magazines attracted little attention. Who will stir...
...Although of course sincere, this comment showed a possibly serious lack of comprehension on Mr...
...Not only has there been no explanation, there is scarcely any recognition that an ex-planation is needed because the phenomenon itself has been denied (with the ad hominem argument that those who advance such views are guilty of paranoia, conspiratorial thinking, and above all McCarthyism...
...missiles...
...Once you've read this book, you'll never again lose an argument by being sullen, uncontrollably angry, peevishly defensive, or apologetic...
...Now is this a genuine news story or is it a contrivance...
...Ah, but there is...
...In fact, mazeltov...
...Before leaving for Geneva, President Reagan said to the Soviet Union via Voice of America that "Americans donot threaten your nation and never will...
...I refer to the international horde of peace activists, to the disingenuous disarmers, the socially responsible physicians, the physicists for mutually assured destruction, the rampaging campus crusade for Marx, and to the fifth columnists of the news media...
...The skillfully crafted plot keeps the reader racing toward the final chapter:' —The Wall Street, journal...
...In this respect Reagan's offer to share the technology is quite Machiavellian: He is offering to share what the KGB by then will no THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JANUARY 1986 11...
...On a more important point, how many other, more consequential news stories are similarly contrived...
...It threatens privilege...
...Read Moscow Rules...
...There are those product endorsements, the requests for public appearances, the interviews...
...Always someone or some-thing must be found to rave about and to make these facilities profitable...
...SDI is simply the military procurement of the latest technology, which makes possible the rapid data processing needed to track 25,000-m.p.h...
...Perry...
...Is your husband a "distracter...
...She has given workshops and seminars all over the U.S., including verbal self.defense sessions for doctors, lawyers, and other professionals...
...He even married the daughter of a high-ranking Soviet officer But he didn't do it out of loyalty...
...and the Soviet Union...
...should have become clear by now that "differences" between a free market democracy and a totalitarian slave state cannot possibly be "resolved" by a meeting between their heads of state...
...I guess there will be no more arms control agreements...
...And it shows you how and when to use blunt honesty, agreement, humor, flattery, and distraction...
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...indeed does constitute a serious threat to the ruling Soviet hierarchy...
...Before undertaking this column I requested the views of several learned observers of the American scene—what did they think of "The Refrigerator...
...At any rate, the fascination is always vastly out of pro-portion to what is warranted...
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...In such a world, a defensive capacity that is made available to all works to the disadvantage only of the aggressor...
...The technological revolution will continue whether or not government research and development funds are appropriated for it...
...Gorbachev...
...That arsenal is the only claim the economically and culturally backward Soviet Union has to superpower status...
...Every day—in fact every minute—television networks, radio networks, newspapers, magazines, and still more communications systems await the arrival of some great event or personage—anything to utilize their facilities, to intrigue an audience...
...By the time you read this the swarm should be after him again...
...How do you abolish the computer revolution...
...But how can he stop it...
...Thus we witness the celebration of such fellows as "The Refrigerator...
...Gorbachev really is likely to have concluded that all that stuff about thebellicose Reagan was indeed propaganda and nothing else...
...develops the means to neutralize their painstakingly acquired missile forces...
...A breath-stopping political thriller...
...Indeed, summits tend to be dangerous because they inevitably reinforce the (well-founded) Soviet suspicions that senior American officials are a weak and gullible lot, endlessly willing to respond to threats with mea ea/pas and further propitiatory offerings...
...The idea that conflicting ideologies produce forms of government whose coexistence ensures world tension was some-thing that I would not have thought of at that time, nor would anyone have suggested it...
...Who will stir up the credulous clients of rock 'n' roll...
...flying to persuade the nomenklatura that the West is not determined to break its power and represents no threat is useless," Voslensky writes...
...My reaction to the earlier Geneva summit was something like this: Wow, if they get together and talk, maybe they will discover that they are members of the same human race, etc...
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...After the stifling Geneva fog of (Soviet) lies and (American) self-deception, one turns to this work as to an oxygen mask...
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...Of course, you only have to hit such missiles with very small objects to explode them, and very small objects are cheaper to make, and to fire, than large missiles...
...Here is a passage from the chapter entitled "The Claim to World Hegemony...
...Broadcast studios and printing presses cost money...
...SDI will degrade the Soviet offensive arsenal as a geopolitical asset," wrote George Will, whose column has been an island of truth in an ocean of self-deception in recent months...
...Certainly the "arms race," an expression of the tension between the U.S...
...In purely objective terms there is no reason for Americans, even the dopes among us, to be fascinated by Mr...
...About the Author Psycholinguist Suzette Haden Elgin has presented her innovative self-defense principles in a variety of formats...
...And you'll discover how to counter all the varieties of verbal abuse — from subtle put-downs to out-and-out attacks...
...For years people have wistfully pondered the impossible task of disinventing the atom bomb: How do you abolish knowledge...
...The Soviet Union is not going to reduce its offensive forces unless Reagan agrees to suspend all work on strategic defense, and here the good news (heard so rarely from Your Correspondent) is that Reagan will make no such concession...
...What created these absurd hysterias is the existence of a huge communications network pervading the nation and waiting somewhat desperately for stories to be echoed and re-echoed through it...
...Read the stories about him, listen to the broadcasts...
...Because the mere existence of a free and affluent West shows its subjects that the capitalist system, in spite of all its faults, provides better living conditions, the nomenklatura believes that that day might come As this has nothing to do with any provocative attitude on the part of the West, but is a consequence of its mere existence, no amount of detente or "good conduct" on its part will cause the Soviet leaders to depart from their general line and abandon their objective of destroying the Western system...
...These expensive communications systems simply have to be put to use...
...He did it to get revenge...
...It is beside the point that we do not mean to threaten anybody...
...Dialogues that Show Effective & Ineffective Defense Strategies • Instructions on Voice Control & Body Language These features will teach you how to deal with all types of people, including bullying bosses, backbiting co-workers, guilt-producing mothers, nagging wives, con-descending husbands, and many others...
...It is one thing when great personages create history...
...It trains you to defend yourself with a simple eloquence that will sub-due your verbal opponents...
...Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader," seems to be the obligatory media protocol...
...I think now that my reaction was subconsciously formed by fairy tales of rival kingdoms ruled by autonomous, all-powerful Good Kings and Bad Kings...
...That is why stopping strategic defense is such an urgent mat-ter for Mr...
...He established ties within the KGB...
...Stop Them with a Few Words This book explains the various ways that people will try to bait you and then it tells you how to stop them with a few carefully chosen words...
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...U.S.-Soviet relations have of course changed since 1955, and in ways that make the persistent faith in "dialogue" particularly hard to understand...
...The latest Geneva summit, just concluded as I write, was a sham and a pretense No good can come of it...
...Paradoxically, however, the number of educated people in the West who are THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JANUARY 1986 9 spiritually aligned with the Soviet Union has greatly increased in the last generation...
...So the economics of the new technology works inexorably in favor of defense...
...Reagan's part...
...Something unexpected might happen to a Bad King and he would become a Good King...
...In all history, this is an unparalleled condition...
...As someone who works in the White House told me, Americans are oddly reassured by the prospect that, post-Geneva, Gorbachev and Reagan will at least have had a chance to get acquainted...
...He fought in Afghanistan...
...The danger is not of military attack, as the nomenklatura propaganda claims, but takes the more insidious form of spontaneous dissolution from within—which the nomenklatura never mentions...
...To the fascinating story of a fat fellow catching a pass and making a touch-down, the media now add the story of his growing popularity, a popularity that the media created and nurtured...
...Not one manifested any interest whatsoever, and for the first time ever I actually saw the face of my friend William F. Buckley, Jr., go absolutely blank...
...Meet Major General Sasha Preobrazhensky...
...George Gilder's suggestion that we shouldn't bother to regulate the sale of the new technology would likewise force Reagan's hand...
...Perry is a defensive lineman who has started in only a handful of games for his team, the Chicago Bears...
...Whether they will be able to make it work is another matter...
...CAPITOL IDEAS NO TURNING BACK by Tom Bethell At boarding school many years ago I dimly recall hearing that there would soon be a meeting between Premier Khrushchev (as he was called) and President Eisenhower...
...And it explains both attacks and defenses with helpful features like these: • The 8 Types of Verbal Attacks (and how to fight them...
...What I cannot understand is that a sizable percentage of the adult population, especially the university-educated segment, retains my teenage outlook thirty years and many summits later...
...Beyond his celebrity there is actually not very much to say about the man...
...The U.S...
...Is your mother a "blamer...
...Well, felicitations...
...The 4 Principles of Verbal Self-Defense (from knowing you are under attack to following through with your counter-attack...
...That revolution cannot be stopped or rolled back...
...And indeed there is no greater mistake than to conclude that they do not...
...That is what is so disconcerting...
...to proceed full speed ahead with SDI—no doubt the best strategy...
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...Notice above all the asymmetrical geo-strategic postures of the U.S...
...He has participated in a few offensive plays, . caught a pass, and scored a few touch-downs...
...Government laboratories...
...next year, and I believe highly unlikely that Reagan will ever visit the Soviet Union...
...and the Soviet Union rather than the cause of it, will not be curtailed as a result...
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...As to the immediate future, Reagan will come in for a renewed assault from The Hive (the communion of apostates arrayed harmoniously around the Soviet queen), in another attempt to get him to drop strategic defense...
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...So far as I know, absolutely no explanation has been provided for this fantastic shift of allegiance on the part of free, educated people into a tacit alliance with a blood-soaked state based on terror and coercion...
...It is quite another thing when history is created by the mountebanks who have brought us "The Refrigerator...
...It Tom Bethel/ is The American Spectator's Washington correspondent...
...Soviet officials fear the Western system in the same way that indolent monopolists fear free trade...
...Perry, we are told that the public is just wild about him...
...Save Yourself Years of Mistakes The GentleArt of Verbal Self-Defense gives you a cornplete education in communication, an education that will improve the quality of your personal and professional relationships...
...Well, I cannot say that I have encountered a soul who has displayed even modest interest...
...Heys done everything to work his way up in the Soviet bureaucracy...
...And, as for most of the other national wows, there are often compel-ling reasons for finding them repugnant—for instance, their lack of talent, their unenviable predicaments, their prosaicism...
...It has worked well enough for them, after all...
...But it cannot count on intimidation forever and is terrified of what will happen on the day its subjects tire of living in fear...
...I hope this is the beginning of a stupendous athletic career, but his induction into the Football Hall of Fame is still a long way off...
...Thus it is only a matter of time before the Soviets obtain it...
...The thriller that cracks the Kremlint secret chambers...
...Similarly disdainful assessments of the American leadership seem to have been formulated in the Kremlin after almost every summit, to judge by subsequent events (Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Berlin Wall, Afghanistan, and so on...
...Now we are more deferential...
...My reasoning goes as follows: It is the technological, or computer revolution of the last decade that makes strategic defense possible...
...The same consideration underlies nomenklatura policy in the Third World...
...Reagan might have more wisely remained in Soviet eyes the mysterious solitary figure on horseback, riding about his ranch with a blade of grass between his teeth, a missile in his holster, a black hat on his head, and an unfathomable look in his eye...
...Michael Voslensky clarifies this important point in his remarkable book Nomenklatura (Doubleday, 1984), described on the cover as an "insider's report" on the "Soviet ruling class...
...The Communists killed his father and his lover and now he•won'tstop until het destroyed their government...
...To stop being a danger in this way, the West would have to sacrifice its liberty and prosperity, everything that so advantageously distinguishes it from real socialism...
...The private sector origins of the new technology means that it is for sale...
...Elgin has also created a self-defense tape and a training manual for people who teach her self-defense techniques...
...The 5 Personalities & How They Communicate (Is your boss a leveller...
...You'll have gained enough savvy not to be thrown by hostile remarks...
...The Soviets just are not going to sit idly by while the U.S...
...Moscow Rules, by Robert Moss, co-author of The Spike...
...She is likely to have concluded that these people really do believe in Communism...
...On your own, it might take you years of trial and error, of fights and misunderstandings, to learn all the lessons of this book...
...The fact is that free people do threaten tyrants...
...How to Become a "Black Belt" in Verbal Self-Defense For anyone who's ever been pulverized by put-downs, rankled by reproaches, or irritated by insinuations, here's a revolutionary book that devotes itself completely to tactics of verbal self-defense...
...The nomenklatura] knows very well that the standard of living in the West is much higher than in the Soviet Union, and that the West enjoys a degree of liberty in-conceivable to Soviet citizens...
...It has after all occurred in the private sector, not in U.S...
...The nomenklatura knows that the West is a danger to it...
...First, it should be clear to all by now that the Soviet economic system (socialism) does not work, cannot work, will never work, and if persisted in will reduce to starvation all countries saddled with it...
...If the post-summit pattern of renewed Soviet aggression is to be preserved, the Soviet High Command will soon be strongly tempted to make another expansionary move, or some new assault or military strike...
...Keep Cool During Arguments The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense also helps you avoid the self-defeating, overly emotional attitudes that many people assume during arguments...
...Is this so difficult to understand...
...So would his Kingdom...
...The knowledge that the Soviets are in any event likely to obtain the technology effectively prevents Reagan from abandoning SDI research and development, because obviously if they get it before us then the whole world is in danger...
...it also knows that its subjects know that, and that it is able to contain them only by perpetual intimidation...
...We by contrast are defensive—all too defensive on occasions...
...doubt have either bought or stolen...
...Regarding the behemoth Mr...
...Learn to Handle All Attacks The GendeArt of Verbal Self-Defense covers all the types of verbal attacks and attackers you're likely to encounter...
...By contrast, from about the mid-fifties to the mid-sixties there was a widespread belief, shared by most economists in the world, and by the CIA, that Communist central planning would before too long leave market economies in the dust...
...The Soviets' power derives solely from their ability to threaten the world...
...10 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JANUARY 1986 bachev, who loyally visited the Lenin shrines in Geneva, made a tactical error in delivering little Marxist homilies over the teacups to Nancy Reagan—hitherto the secret weapon of the Men-fists...
Vol. 19 • January 1986 • No. 1
