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States and the Middle East,” ENDPapers (Nottingham), Summer 1985.
38. Assistant Defense Secretary Richard Perle, speaking in Bonn, BG, July
31, 1985; Ha’aretz, Aug. 16, 1985.
39. The assessment is inaccurate in that it omits France, where the Paris
intellectuals, in the latest phase of their recurrent frenzies, often outdo
Reagan in hysterical warnings of the Soviet takeover of the world, notably
those who a few years earlier were passionate Maoists and Stalinists,
virtually alone on the world scene.
40. Foreign Affairs, America and the World 1983 (Winter 1983).
41. George Lardner, WP Weekly, Sept. 9, 1985.
42. Randall Forsberg, President and Executive Director, Institute for Defense
& Disarmament Studies, 2001 Beacon St, Brookline MA 02146, March
1985.
43. Henry Kissinger, American Foreign Policy (Norton, 1969), 28; for more
on this topic, see TNCW, chapters 1, 2, 6.
44. See George Ball, New York Review, Nov. 8, 1984, April 11, 1984, for a
number of such quotes; Ze’ev Blitzer, Al Hamishmar (Israel), Oct. 27,
1983, reporting Reagan’s comments to Tom Dine, head of the Israeli
lobbying group AIPAC, while thanking him for “the behind-the scenes
efforts of the pro-Israeli lobby to mobilize support in Congress for the
continued American presence in Lebanon.
45. “From Cold War to Cold Peace?,” Business Week, Feb. 12, 1949;
Economist, April 13, 1985.
46. LaFeber, America, Russia, and the Cold War; for an important
contemporary discussion, see James Warburg, Germany—Key to Peace
(Harvard, 1953). The incident has largely disappeared from history.
47. Leffler, “The American Conception of National Security”; see also the
discussion of his paper in the same issue by John Lewis Gaddis and
Bruce Kuniholm, raising no serious question concerning his thesis, and
Leffler’s response. See also Kolko and Kolko, Limits of Power, for
extensive background.
48. Michael Evangelista, “Stalin’s Postwar Army Reappraised,” International
Security, Winter 1982/3.