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...damn much was happening. who once was proud of his constant changing was now for a status quo. For no sooner he adjust from an isolationist America to America as an international leader than he faced, via Lunik, and in his own backyard, Beatnik, with the possibility of America as a second class power...
...Treaty's provisions became increasingly irrelevant. The best proof of this -- and one which Taylor discusses brilliantly -- is the reparations wrangle. If Germany were to "pay for her war," she could not recover, and a "recovery" (in the sense of achievement of a new status quo) was what the West wanted...
...most dangerous thing in the would be to try to maintain the status quo,' 'he said, warning the United States to avoid making the Congo a South Vietnam...
Conservatives, on the whole, favor the status quo in foreign relations, as well as in internal economic matters. They are thus the exponents of "uncompromising militancy," he said. The extremists on the left, on the other hand, delve into world affairs intending to solve all problems at once, much like domestic socialist ideologists. Liberals in both spheres try to stabilize conflicts by compromise, he explained...
...withdraw some of our military equipment does not demonstrate that it is contrary to our interest to do do. One may disagree with particular proposals, but to suggest the process of proceeding unilaterally in a direction that may be to our mutual interest without a promised quid pro quo is hardly irresponsible. On the contrary, I know no one familiar with the field who suggests that the United States limit itself to the process of verbal negotiation...