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...invite the Soviets to share the responsibility, and thus the rewards, of controlling the Persian Gulf would amount to the most astonishing voluntary abdication of a Western position in the postwar world. At least when the British ran out on their responsibilities in the gulf in 1971, they turned it over to an ally. But now Pell and others would like to offer the Soviets, who have been lusting for the gulf since Romanov days, a share of it. Gratis...
...Democrats are not alone. Among the others warming to this idea is Howard Baker. "It's a unique arrangement that the Kuwaitis chose to invite both the United States and the Soviet Union to share the responsibility for assuring the passage of oil tankers to the Persian Gulf," he offered. "That's a real first . . . I think it is clearly not a bad thing." If this was an off-the-cuff remark, it shows an amazing lack of seriousness by the vaunted new Administration team. And if what Baker enunciated was a decided change in American policy, it constitutes...
Have the Democrats or the Administration thought through the implications of a "U.N. action" or of cooperation with the Soviets? One suspects they have. Congress is obsessed that the Persian Gulf may be a new Gulf of Tonkin. The Administration is obsessed that it may be a new Lebanon. Everybody is looking...
...United States is not going to defend its allies and interests in the Persian Gulf, then where? The gulf is the one area declared by the last Democratic President to be such a vital American interest that he pledged -- this is the Carter Doctrine -- American military action, if necessary, to secure the gulf...
...should not act alone in the Persian Gulf, critics say. Why not? Should Washington wait for Europe? The U. N.? The Soviets...