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They focus, as one might expect, on the big issues--containment, détente, China, Vietnam--and on the day-to-day contingencies of democratic politics and imperial diplomacy.
According to Kissinger, the breathing space created by détente gave the United States time to recover from Vietnam without retreating into isolationism, thus setting the table for Reagan.
--unfurled like a white flag, pacific civilian Switzerland--the miraculous neutrality of it, the non-combatant impartiality of it, the non-aggression pacts of it, the international red cross of it--entente to the left, détente to the right, into the valley of the invalided blundered and wandered myself when young--Carr of the Consulate!"
Ha'aretz , which led its front page Wednesday with a report that Barak is planning to seek détente with Israel's "enemy number one," Iran, against strong objections by his own military intelligence, also pointed out in its Wednesday editorial that Barak has "achieved his fundamental goal--a government unthreatened by a sword of Damocles over its head."
The fight over whether détente helped win the Cold War is not simply academic.