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Letters to the Editor
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are* their armed forces from the
following list of countries into which they
had pursued the Nazis: Norway (Finn-
mark Province), Finland, Denmark
(Bomholm Island, very large), Czecho¬
slovakia (to which they returned over 20
years later). Yugoslavia, Iran (the only
casein which, there was sny controversy
over their withdrawal), China (Man¬
churia, where they allowed our planes to
replace them with Chiang Kai-shek's
anti-Communist forces), and, shortly
- afterward, Korea (before the Korean
War). -.:'
You may verify this by going to the
Fresno State library and looking through
the files of the N.Y. Times or any other
source'of that day you please. Don't
look in later sources because we have
simply 'forgotten* that in history
books as part of the Cold War. Nothing
but a third world war could have forced
the Red Army out against Moscow's
will.  .';•;    '     ' —:—
Such a war was politically impossible
because the people of the West were
grateful to the Soviets for having saved
them millions of casunrben. As early as
1942, long before the Allies landed in
France and before Lend-Lease was able
to-reach the USSR in quantity, British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill said:
'Russia has already inflicted injuries
upon the German military organism
which will, I believe, prove ultimately
fatal.'
This gratitude created serious political
difficulties when the U.S. launched the
Cold War in the hope of proceeding to a
hot war that would wipe off the face of
the earth the communist alternative to
the capitalist system. Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles, the Brzezinski of
his day, wrote in the 1960s: 'To compel
the country to bear the burden involved -
in mnmiainino; powerful armed forces, it
is necessary to create an emotional"
atmosphere resembling the psychologi¬
cal conditions of wartime. The notion
of a threat from without must be cre¬
ated."
He bad admitted earlier that no such
threat existed, in a speech of March 8,
1949: "So far as it is humanly possible
to judge, the Soviet government, under
conditions now prevailing, does not con¬
template the use of war as an instrument
of its national policy.
"I do not know any responsible high
official, military or civilian, of this
government or any government, woo
believes that the Soviet state now plans
conquest by open military aggression.*
(my emphasis—W. M.)
As I read history, it was Dulles' plan
for U.S. "conquest by open military
aggression,.* which we now know, as
first-strike policy, that faced the
Russians to take their action in Czecho¬
slovakia in 1988, with consequences that
have made Europe the. least dangerous
place an earth right now in terms of
the possibility of world war.    .
The   same    holds    for    Afghanistan
Brzezinski, responded to a face-to-face
question by U.C. Berkeley student body
president Karen Westmont: "So what if
there is covert activity by the CIA
there?' (Daily Califoraian, 2/19/801.
The key to the Afghan situation was pro¬
vided in an article in the Washington
Post, 5/13/79, by the man who had been
its correspondent in South Asia since.
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the   Kremlin,   Touched   Off   Afghan
IBs most important sentence reads:
'Beginning in 1974'... Iran, encouraged
by the United States, made a determined
effort to draw Kabul into a western
tilted, Tehran-centered regional eco¬
nomic and security sphere embracing
Pakistan, India, and the Persian Gulf
states:* (my emphasis-W.M.)
It was five years before the Russians'
patience ran out and they acted last
December. Would our patience last that'
long if Moscow had tried to draw Canada
or Mexico into an anti-U.S. alliance? If
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Cypher on target
TotheEditor;
I have been following the letters in the
Collegian concerning the 'Panel Discus¬
sion on Soviet Foreign Policy* with little
real concern until now. I suppose in a
sense I was delighted to see the History
Club get some publicity, but I am con¬
cerned with the direction this contro¬
versy is taking.
It is one thing to carry on a debate on
this very controversial issue, but quite
another thing to resort to character
attacks and attempts to discredit a per¬
son'a integrity.
As President of the History Club, and
organizer of the 'Panel Discussion* I
feel I must clarify any possible misun¬
derstandings as to the intent of this pop-
standings as to the intent of this pro¬
duction.
When the History Club was consider¬
ing possible topics to present this sem¬
ester Dr. Jones suggested the timely and
controversial subject of Afghanistan.
We decided to have it the topic of our
first meeting. Having limited knowledge
of the subject myself, I asked Dr. Jones
who he felt we should invite to partici¬
pate.
He suggested Dr. Alfred Evans, Pro,
feasor of Political Science; Dr. Robert E.
Lee, Professor of Geography; Dickran
Kouymjian. Professor of Ethnic Studies:
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Dr.   Gbofem   Dergshi,   Prc*Bseor^of
Political Science; and Dr. James Cypher,
Professor of Eccromcs. The Httbrv
Club invited each professor to partici¬
pate. All but one agreed.
Dr. Dargahi baffled me with his re- '
fusal to participate. He felt his approach
to the subject would be different from
the conventional approach and might
cause repercussions for turn. _"
He felt his position as an Iranian
would create controversy as well as hut
socialist philosophy. 1 attempted to per-
. suade himto participate in order to pre¬
vent a one-sided view of the issue and
suggested his participation would cer¬
tainly provide us with useful insight;
I tried to convince him that all parties
involved would treat the subject with
professional integrity and that personal
attacks would surely not occur. I bate to
admit that he was right. I am afraid that
Dr. Cypher's unconventional stance has
brought upon him the very repercussions
that Dr. Dargahi avoided.   -
I also recall that we decided that no
guidelines would be established which
the speakers had 'o follow. In fact we
were hoping'that differing views would
be presented in order to promote lively
discussion. I did, however, ask each pro¬
fessor beforehand how they would
approach the subject. I asked Dr. Jones
what area he was going to cover.
He informed me that his knowledge in
the area was limited and that he would
rather play the part of moderator. In
view of recent letters to the'editor. Dr.
Jones must have taken a crash course in
Soviet Foreign Policy in Afghanistan.
I find it puzzling that he did not take
Dr. Cypher to task on sny of the issues
be argues now in letters to the editor
during the History Club Panel Discus¬
sion.
Perhaps at the time he saw the pos¬
itive response from the audience to what
Dr. Cypher was saying. Dr. Cypher's
approach was not to limit the riiarnwaoii
to the morally self-righteous stance that
~5 Americans have taken toward the Soviet
Union. He acknowledged the fact of
Soviet Imperialism, but he also sug¬
gested that we should consider our own
military and eccinornic  mteiventianist
In my opinion Dr. Cypher was right-
on-target. It is extremely dangerous to
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toward the world-gearing our hatreds to¬
ward the Soviet Union. Hatred toward
the United States is rsmpant in the
Third World Countries. Maybe we
access our own foreign policy.
i haven't bean as blatant in
our recent interventions. We
train SAVAC forces-we don't«
own military.
I recall another speaker in the discus¬
sion, Dr. Kouymjian, asking why we
were so interested with Afghanistan
after years of Soviet presence in the
area. Why the great interest in the
Middle East? In response to la. own
question he suggested that oil has deter¬
mined our fcreign policy.
We have meddled in the politic* of the
area of our suicidal ctofairmiBnce upon
petroleum products. He imilml that
until we »nsniw«t» this ilrit)lirir**,7i
the area will be the hot-bed 0< political
unrest.
In response to Dr. Jones i
that Marxists are not I
murders, I say tell me the
behind supporting the Shah, or
porting Sornosa or Trujillo. TaB me of *
humanitarian   motives   of
Imperialism I
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