How NATO Weakens the West

...Once the allies are off our back, says Mr...

...Such resistance movements make life difficult for the Soviet Union and its surrogates, enjoy indigenous support, and want U.S...

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...But such activities, he"argues, can be effectively carried out only by governments that have a monopoly on power and can act in secret...

...troop reductions, for the withdrawal of the American nuclear umbrella, or for NATO of abandonment outright Keep current with trends in contemporary the French language and culture with Champs- le-z , have grown louder and more frequent, El sees, the unique audio-magazine hosted by ;, and now come from both ends of the top European radio and television personality, 6' 1,gv1W` political spectrum...

...efforts to oppose Soviet adventurism has rendered that task increasingly difficult—which makes it all the more urgent for America to abandon current alliance arrangements...

...transcription and a special French-English Impr 6' From the right an altogether different A-wr 10° vocabulary section 4 argument is heard: that NATO has its• become the chief obstacle to an effec.,...mgook • tive anti-Communist foreign policy, preventing the United States from meeting the Soviet global challenge and insuring its own security...

...Krauss's claims about the lessons of Vietnam, that war demonstrated not the uselessness of direct American military intervention but the folly of intervening without a clear-cut objective and the willingness to do what is required to achieve it...

...Calls for U.S...

...help...

...policies...

...Europeans' refusal to stand up to the That being the case, Mr...

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...These policies persist, seemingly immune to events, largely because our political culture remains in thrall to the idea that the U.S...

...Krauss contends that the U.S...

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...Thus he proposes withdrawing US...

...to try to beat the Soviets at their own game...

...B ecause he thinks NATO has come to serve the interests of the Soviet Union rather than the Western democracies, Mr...

...dollars...

...Their hostility to U.S...

...This manuscript was first discovered by John M. Lothian of the University of Aberdeen in 1958...

...Far from having been forced upon us by our European allies, "détente, summitry, subsidies, and arms control" were energetically sought by the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and have been pursued by American governments, with varying intensity, ever since...

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...Krauss, America's allies are not only unwilling to provide for their own defense...

...In recent years, the Europeans have exhibited less and less of lion, terrorism, and insurgency than it that virtue, even as more and more has been in putting an end to war—Americans have expressed an unwill- the dream of its most radical eningness to go on defending them...

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...Much of his book is an attempt to demonstrate that Western Europe has been getting a defense "free ride" as a result of U.S...

...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 1987 43 veto is now being cast in the Kremlin...

...Once capitalism spreads," he concludes, "Communism will contain itself...

...They have been enriching the common enemy with trade, cheap credit, and high technology...

...Thanks to American defense guarantees, democracy in Western Europe has survived Cioe...

...In fact, Grenada showed that in the 1980s U.S...

...Introduction, appendices, index...

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...As an aid to comprehension, each 45-minute cassette program .*,-"" " Europeans pursue their own course incomes with a complete printed French WI 110 dependent of the two "superpowers...

...forswear any reliance on the use of military force...

...If he fails to understand the true lessons of Vietnam, Mr...

...Yet despite the success of the Atlantic Alliance, its future is now in doubt...

...tion for the value of their democracies...

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...and prospered since 1945...

...troops can roll back Communism and establish democracy just as they saved the Dominican Republic from a Communist takeover in the 1960s and contained Communist aggression in Korea in the 1950s...

...The logic of his argument carries him beyond the dissolution of NATO to the abandonment of other alliances, even those with countries that are generally supportive of U.S...

...Krauss also fails to take account of the actual history of U.S...

...On the contrary, what has made the pursuit of such a policy so difficult has been the widespread acceptance since Vietnam of the same ideas about the futility of using force to resist Communism that Mr...

...But Mr...

...be in the business of providing military aid to anti-Communist resistance movements, such as those now fighting in Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Afghanistan...

...need do is turn to the strongest weapon in its arsenal, namely, the marketplace...

...Unfortunately, free trade is much to advance the cause of accomlikely to be no more successful in stop- modation to Soviet power both here ping Communist aggression, subver- and abroad...

...Krauss concludes that the U.S...

...America's role in the world are virtually Mr...

...Nor, by Mr...

...To think that we can free ourselves from the grip of this idea by freeing ourselves from the burden of our alliances is to believe in an illusion...

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...Previously published are The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Lectures on Jurisprudence, Essays on Philosophical Subjects, and, in two volumes, The Wealth of Nations...

...is to contain Soviet expansionism, he argues, we can only do so alone, unimpeded by ties with reluctant allies...

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...Krauss's blend of economic deter-were left to face, individually and minism and anti-interventionism is fur-alone, the overwhelming military power ther evidence of that trend...

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...What's worse, HOW NATO WEAKENS THE WEST in exchange for European deployment Melvyn Krauss/Simon and Schuster/$18.95 of Pershing II and cruise missiles, the Reagan Administration "has adopted Steven C. Munson the European policies of detente, summitry, subsidies, and arms control...

...At first glance economist Melvyn Krauss, the author of How NATO illII Air r Weakens the West, appears to fall into the second category of anti-NATO adSubscribe now and receive the Spring & Autumn I am enclosing vocates...

...Moreover, giving them the aid they need costs the U.S...

...But restraining the use of American power...

...Moreover, on such issues as Poland, the shooting down of KAL 007, and Afghanistan, pressure from the Europeans has led the United States to abandon an initially tough stance toward the Soviet Union...

...Krauss is confident the West Europeans have a strong enough commitment to Western values to do what is necessary to preserve their democracies...

...once the nations of Western Europe Mr...

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...Krauss insists— amount to a call for a retreat into isolabut from a growing loss of apprecia- tion and inaction...

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...The main reason America lost the war in Vietnam, he says, was that we sent our own troops in to do the fighting, which undermined support for the war at home and gave the North Vietnamese a tremendous propaganda victory...

...a "proxy" for the Soviet Union, that a continent where traditional great power rivalries and later the rise of fascist and Communist totalitarianism led to two world wars...

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...foreign policy over the past twenty years...

...Krauss himself heartily embraces...

...It is true that political support for aiding such causes has been lacking in the United States, but that is not, as Mr...

...America...

...It is no less illusory to suppose that Western Europe, left unprotected by the U.S., would muster the courage to resist the Soviet Union...

...they also have no desire to resist Soviet imperialism in the Third World...

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...military intervention cannot be effective in stopping the spread of Communism...

...Since then, writes Mr...

...Our defeat in Vietnam, he writes, proves that direct U.S...

...Krauss's lights, should the U.S...

...stops footing the bill for their defense, he is convinced, the Europeans will pay to defend themselves...

...Once the U.S...

...virtually nothing...

...should strive to create a vested interest in the "capitalistic system" among the poorer countries of the world by giving Third World producers ,access to our markets and ending the flow of unproductive foreign aid to their governments...

...Krauss's prescriptions for U.S...

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...The prevalence of the idea that we can and should reach some kind of accommodation with the Soviets—with all of its far-reaching implications—has hamstrung U.S...

...He points out that the Soviet Union has had considerable success using proxies and so-called substitute forces to extend its influence in the Third World...

...America's obsession with allied unity, F or nearly forty years, the North promise to use nuclear weapons in he writes, has given the Europeans a Atlantic Treaty Organization has response to a Soviet conventional at- veto power over U.S...

...He is currently PO...

...R102 Indianapolis, IN 46250 44 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 1987 It is puzzling that someone who professes to be as worried as Mr...

...must learn to live with the Soviet Union rather than try to weaken or defeat it...

...This, he believes, would end both Korean and Japanese "defense free-riding" on the U.S., and, as with the West Europeans, lead the Japanese and Koreans to increase their military efforts...

...foreign policy, and protected the countries of Western tack in Europe lost all credibility when because Western Europe's policy of apEurope from the threat of Soviet ag- the Soviet Union achieved nuclear pari- peasement has made it little more than gression...

...should withdraw from the alliance over a period of five years...

...NATO has kept the peace on ty with the U.S...

...Krauss would have it, because of some basic incompatibility between democratic institutions and a policy of arming anti-Communist guerrillas...

...Produced entirely in modern the left we hear that the U.S...

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...In these lectures, Smith demonstrated the connection of language and the ability to communicate thoughts and inclinations to the development of sympathy and fellow-feeling, concepts central to his more famous works...

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...In his view, one need only look at the great difficulty the Reagan Administration has had in trying to get money out of Congress for the contras in Nicaragua to see how unrealistic it is for the U.S...

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...M r. Krauss's optimism on this point leads him to recommend that the U.S...

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...He believes an American pullout would shock the Europeans out of their complacencyabout the Soviet threat and their debilitating dependence on the U.S...

...Krauss's ideas Soviets springs not from a desire to about the use of military power save money—as Mr...

...troops from South Korea at the sametime they are pulled out of Western Europe...

...indistinguishable from the prevailing policy would lead us further down the left-wing orthodoxy that has done so same path...

...While he of the Soviet Union, they would almost claims to repudiate the appeasers and certainly continue down the path of accommodationists, his views on accommodation...

...Krauss, containing Communism will be relatively easy...

...Over the past several years, a Although the prospects are gloomy, noticeable convergence of left and right their spiritual and moral decline, like opinion has taken place on the issue of our own, could yet be reversed...

...they are unsuitable for a democracy like the United States...

...The thusiasts a hundred years or so ago...

...In his view, they only need the proper economic incentives...

...Krauss about the expansion of Communist power should oppose giving military aid to UNITA in Angola or the mujahedeen in Afghanistan...

...chose this path rather than risk a breakdown in relations with its allies...

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...foreign policy far more decisively than the importunings of our allies...

...If the U.S...