Charge of the Reaganites: The Russians Are Coming!
"Let us not delude ourselves. The Soviet Union underlies all the unrest that is going on. If they weren't engaged in this game of dominoes, there wouldn't be any hotspots in the world. "' Ronald...
...71, no...
...6. Washington Post, July 17, 1981...
...2 Jeane Kirkpatrick provided an Orwellian double standard to legitimize the Reagan Administration's warm embrace of the right-wing regimes that Carter had kept at arms' length...
...at his first news conference as secretary of state (January 28, 1981), he declared that Soviet-sponsored "international terrorism will take the place of human rights in our concern because it is the ultimate abuse of human rights...
...Washington Post, March 8, 1982...
...Friendly, pro-capitalist regimes like the late Somoza's or Pinochet's are labeled "authoritarian" and deserve U.S...
...Total Strategy for Total War," Southern Africa, January-February, 1981...
...State Department, Bureau of Public Affairs, Washington D.C., August 29, 1981...
...The new "global war" doctrine combines the strategies of''vertical escalation," escalating from conventional to nuclear warfare...
...And Alexander Haig echoed the same theme...
...See, for example, Robert Legvold (Director of the CFR's Project on U.S.-Soviet Relations), "Containment Without Confrontation," Foreign Policy, Fall 1980...
...See Robert Lawrence, "Reagan's Africa Arsenal," Southern Africa, November-December 1980, for remarks by Churba and Crocker...
...1. Comment made in June, cited in Anthony Lewis, "Reagan in Foreign Affairs," New York Times, July 17, 1980...
...25...
...Council for Inter-American Security and Institute for American Relations, Free World Security and the South Atlantic, (Washington, D.C.: CIS...
...59 (March-April 1982), p. 48...
...New York Times, April 15, 1982...
...4. New York Times, May 22, 1981...
...LA WR August 21, 1981...
...Michael T. Klare, "Evading the Embargo: Illicit U.S...
...Also see John Goshko, "Latest Haig-Kirkpatrick Dispute Underscored Foreign Policy Rift," Washington Post, June 2, 1982 59...
...New York Times, June 16 and 20, 1982 on British/NATO base schemes...
...Business Week, April 26, 1982...
...Dan Smith, South Africa's Nuclear Capability (London: World Campaign Against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa, 1980...
...See New York Times, June 21, 1982...
...government officials are "expected to provide the same courtesies and support" to companies selling arms as to those selling any other product...
...Stephen Cohen, "South African History, Reagan Style: Such Good Friends," New Republic, May 2, 1981, 26...
...Wall StreetJournal, June 4, 1982...
...William Safire, "Revolt of the Hawks," New York Times, January 21, 1982...
...LA WR, June 13, 1980 and April 17, 1981...
...Los Angeles Times, February 5, 1982...
...New York Times, April 17 and 18, 1982...
...New York Times, June 5, 1982...
...7. Dimitri K. Simes, "Disciplining Soviet Power," Foreign Policy, Summer 1981, p. 33...
...Robert Tucker, "The Purposes of-American Power," Foreign Affairs, Winter 1980-81, p. 271...
...Alexander Cockburn and James Ridgeway, "Seduced and Abandoned: The Conservative Backlash Against President Reagan," Village Voice, January 27-February 2, 1982...
...Strategy for Change," Foreign Affairs, Winter 1980-81...
...44...
...Latin American Weekly Report, May I and May 15, 1981...
...Prensa Latina, May 30, 1981...
...1979...
...New York Times, October 16, 1981...
...New York Times, June 7, 1982...
...4 The Reagan Administration reportedly has "lined up sales of S25 to D30 billion for fiscal 1982, more than twice the volume in 1981...
...2. New York Times, March 22 and May 5, 1981...
...Hanks, Cape Route...
...71, no...
...Also see New York Times, June 6, 1982...
...government has returned to a more active role as world policeman as well as arms dealer...
...New York Times, February 13 and May 22, 1981...
...New York Times, June 13, 1982...
...4 (July-August 1981...
...Folha doSdo Paulo, March 14, 1982, as cited in FBIS, March 19, 1982...
...Arms Transfers to South Africa," Journal of InternationalAffairs, Spring-Summer 1981...
...Edgar Lockwood, "Reagan and South Africa: Drifting Toward Alliance," Christianity and Crisis, November 30, 1981...
...Rand Daily Mail, May 2, 21, and 26, 1981...
...New York Review of Books, April 30, 1981...
...The Reagan Administration reversed Carter's classification of overseas weapons' sales as an "exceptional" instrument of foreign policy, to be used only when it could be "clearly demonstrated" that the arms transfer "contributes to our national security...
...Business Week, May 24, 1982...
...Washington Post, May 28, 1982...
...See Conservative Digest, February 1982...
...Lawrence, "Reagan's Africa Arsenal...
...For a more extensive discussion of these foreign policy debates see Holly Sklar, "Trilateralism, Reagan and the Right: Uneasy Alliances at Home and Abroad," forthcoming in Appeal to Reason...
...Albert Fishlow, "The United States and Brazil," Foreign Affairs, Spring 1982...
...Washington Post, October 17, 1981...
...Rogers and Cervenka, The Nuclear Axis...
...Address by Chester Crocker before the American Legion in Honolulu, Hawaii, "Regional Strategy for Southern Africa," U.S...
...New York Times, May 31, 1982...
...34-35...
...Weinberger's attempt to deny the United States was preparing to fight and win a nuclear war (New York Times, June 21, 1982), served to further reinforce that this was indeed the goal...
...8. Jeane Kirkpatrick, "U.S...
...Stanley Hoffman, "Foreign Policy: What's To Be Done...
...See, for example, New York Times, June 6, 1982...
...Washington Post, June 1, 1982...
...The centerpiece of Weinberger's program is a 600-ship Navy, able to "control the sea lanes" in war or peacetime, and to carry out gunboat diplomacy...
...New York Times, June 17, 1982...
...1 (January 1981), p. 39...
...Christopher Munnion, "Britain Threatens Pretoria," Sunday Telegraph (London), May 30, 1982...
...E 0 26MaylJune 1982 Guns and Ships Besides the anti-Soviet loyalty test, another rule applies in designing third world policy: what's good for the military is good for the country...
...see also Hayes, "Security to The South...
...Secretary of Defense Weinberger's $1.6 trillion program to "Rearm America" is designed to prepare the United States to fight protracted conventional wars (lasting many years) in many places simultaneously (e.g., Europe, the Persian Gulf, the Koreas) as well as an all-out nuclear war with the Soviet Union...
...New York Times, April 13, 1982...
...I, no...
...9. See Norman Podhoretz, "The Future Danger," Commentary, Vol...
...New York Times, June 15, 1982...
...37...
...Southern Africa, January 1982, p. 6. 30...
...The U.S...
...Also see William Safire, New York Times, April 19, 1982...
...New York Times, August 22, 1981...
...Committee of Santa Fe, pp...
...Los Angeles Times, May 31, 1982...
...5. New York Times, February 15, 1982...
...New York Times, June 5, 1982...
...Norman Podhoretz, "The Neo-Conservative Anguish Over Reagan's Foreign Policy," New York Times Magazine, May 2, 1982...
...For an analysisof Crocker's views before, during and after the 1980 campaign, see Sklar and Lawrence, Think Tanks...
...6 CHARGE OF THE REAGANITES: THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING...
...51-52...
...Herald(Buenos Aires), December 16, 1981, as cited in FBIS, December 18, 1981, p. B3...
...A Strategy for the 1980s (New York: United Nations Association of the U.S.A., 1981...
...Angolan Invasion: South Africa Builds Its Buffer," Southern Africa, September-October, 1981, Also see special issue on South Africa's internal and external militarism, "South Africa...
...Arms sales are now "a vital and constructive instrument of American foreign policy" and U.S...
...Newsweek, June 7, 1982, pp...
...horizontal escalation," retaliating or "setting fires" anywhere in the world the United States perceives an advantage (e.g., Cuba, Poland, Vietnam...
...Reagan y un eventual futuro," El Economista (Buenos Aires), June 5, 1980, cited in Raul Sohr, "El Triangulo Washington-Buenos Aires-Pretoria," Nueva Sociedad, No...
...Michael T. Klare, "Testing Out Haig's New War Policy," The Nation, June 19, 1982...
...Figueiredo, May 1982...
...See Robert Armstrong, "Reagan Policy in Crisis: Will the Empire Strike Back...
...Karl Kaiser, Winston Lord, Thierry de Montbrial, David Watt, Western Security: What Has Changed...
...Holly Sklar and Robert Lawrence, "Who's Who in the Reagan Administration" poster published by South End Press, 1981-82...
...Cooperation Hinted in Proposed Trinidade Naval Air Base, Improved Relations with South Africa," Inter Press Service Weekly Report, Vol...
...Timerman's renowned account of his ordeal is Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number (New York: Knopf, 1981...
...Chester Crocker, "South Africa...
...Leftist governments like those of Nicaragua and Angola are called "totalitarian" and, whatever their aspirations toward nonalignment, are regarded as Soviet "proxies" that must be quarantined and destabilized...
...TransAfrica News Report, "New U.S...
...Ibid...
...4 (April 1981...
...Africa, November 1980, pp...
...Much to his chagrin, CIA and FBI studies did not reinforce his claims...
...and "decapitation," destroying the Soviet military and political power structure...
...Ronald Reagan's campaign rhetoric was vintage Cold War...
...Conservative MP Sir Anthony Kershaw voiced the multinational scheme on ABC "Nightline,"June 14, 1982...
...Washington Post, March 16, 1982...
...Washington Post, March 3, 1982...
...CBS News, June 15, 1982...
...New York Times, May 19, 1982...
...Security and Latin America," Commentary, Vol...
...9 (April 2, 1982), pp...
...CBS Special Report, "Winners and Losers," June 15, 1982...
...Wall Street Journal, June 4, 1982...
...Reagan Alliance Woos South Africa," South, October 1981, p. 22...
...TransAfrica News Report, August 1981...
...What Should Be Done...
...Additional Views of Senator Jesse Helms," U.S...
...New York Times, May 30, 1982...
...New York Times, June 4, 1982...
...South Africa Digest, April 15, 1978...
...Argemiro Ferreira, "Brazil: U.S...
...See Alexander Cockburn and James Ridgeway, "The Lesson of HMS Sheffield," Village Voice, May 18, 1982, for a biting critique of Lehman's views...
...Panel on U.S.-Soviet Relations, U.S -Soviet Relations...
...Washington Post, May 31, 1982...
...In March 1981 Haig testified to Congress that the Russians were training "literally thousands of Third World embryoterrorists...
...Three of the four authors also belong to the Trilateral Commission...
...New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1981), pp...
...3 As in the heyday of the Cold War, all nations are now judged either pro-West or pro-Soviet...
...Policy on South Africa: State Department Documents Uncover Developing Alliance," TransAfrica, Washington, D.C., August 1981...
...Undated Helms "Dear Friend" response to enquiries, received May 10, 1982...
...New York Times, May 22, 1981...
...The Soviet Challenge: A Policy Framework for the 1980s (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1981), p. 28...
...XV, no...
...3. Kirkpatrick, "Dictatorships and Double Standards...
...New York Times, June 4 and 5, 1982...
...The Committee of Santa Fe, Lewis Tambs, ed., A New Inter-American Policy for the Eighties (Washington D.C.: Council for Inter-American Security, 1980), p. iv...
...New York Times, March 10, 1982...
...Mother Jones, November 1980...
...Also see Washington Post, February 14, 1982 and Black and Butler, "Target Nicaragua...
...29-31...
...see also Galtieri interview with Oriana Fallaci, Washington Post, June 13, 1982...
...Z. Michael Szaz, ed., "Argentine-United States Relations and South Atlantic Security," American Foreign Policy Institute Studies on Inter-American Security Problems, 1980...
...The Reagans welcome Brazilian President and Mrs...
...NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol...
...Senate, Nomination of Chester Crocker, May 4, 1981, p. 11...
...O Globo (Rio de Janeiro), March 5, 1982, as cited in FBIS, March9, 1982...
...support...
...New York Times, May 27, 1982...
...New York Times, May 20 and June 6, 1981...
...12-13, ff...
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