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...One of Gorbachev's closest advisers, Politburo member Alexander Yakovlev, privately told a foreign leader this fall, "Perestroika means a loss of our self-confidence." Then he added, "It also means realizing that our self- confidence was always misplaced." The West ought to realize that much of its fear of the Soviet Union was also misplaced...
...early as 1947, Kennan suggested that Soviet power "bears within it the seeds of its own decay" and that the U.S.S.R. might turn out to be "one of the weakest and most pitiable of national societies." But unlike the little boy in the fable, Kennan was largely ignored by the crowd when he dared to say out loud that perhaps the emperor in the Kremlin was not quite so resplendent in his suit of armor. Now along comes Gorbachev to announce his nakedness to the world, and Yakovlev to confide that he too feels a chill...
...post-detente Western pressure tactics, starting with the imposition in 1974 of the Jackson- Vanik Amendment linking improved U.S.-Soviet trade to increased Jewish emigration from the U.S.S.R., there would be a different man in the Kremlin today. Or at least there would be a very different Gorbachev, one who would still be suppressing dissidents, sending refuseniks to Siberia, invading neighboring countries, propping up dictators, financing wars in the Third World and generally behaving the way central-casting Soviet leaders are supposed...
...one believes that, then it follows naturally enough that there should be no basic change in the main lines of U.S. policy. It was largely this logic and the smugness that went with it that earlier this year helped the Bush Administration rationalize its initial passivity in response to Gorbachev...
...soon to think about rolling back other U.S. security commitments outside Europe. If the Soviets will finally pack up and pull out of their air and naval bases in Viet Nam, why shouldn't the U.S. vacate its facilities in the Philippines? One objection is that the peoples and governments of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim want a permanent, visible American military presence in that region as a counterbalance to China and Japan. That is a bit like suggesting, as many are suddenly doing, that now more than ever the world needs NATO -- and the Warsaw Pact -- to fend...