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CIAO DATE: 04/04
20 Years Ago in FP
Excerpts from the Spring 1984 issue
"Africa: Do the Doable"
"Americans find it hardest to maintain a sense of realism about their foreign policies during presidential campaigns. Every four years, presidents claim more than they have accomplished; opponents portray alternative policies in terms that can only later lead to disillusion."
—Anthony Lake
"Europe's American Pacifier"
"Old-style conservatives used to be the staunchest defenders of Fortress America; their neo-conservative and New Right heirs now look rather favorably on the use of force abroad. Many liberals, once the banner carriers of Wilsonian activism, have lately come to view the use of force with the same distaste the Founding Fathers had reserved for 'entangling alliances': as a sure pathway to moral and practical ruin."
—Josef Joffe
"The Dying Arab Nation"
"The United States should treat the various Arab regions as discrete entities and convince them that it is working for a relationship rooted in pragmatism. The United States should view the notion of distinctly Arab countries as a cultural rather than a political concept. . .Recent history suggests that the United States should avoid overwhelming any of these states with its presence."
—William R. Brown