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Defusing the Radical Entente
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CURRENT ISSUES
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3 / 1986 |
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Evans Johnson
Evans Johnson was a foreign correspondent based in several
Middle Eastern countries from 1975 to 1982, and is now an
associate editor with the New York City Tribune. |
Incidents of terror against the peoples, facilities, and businesses of free world nations are not random acts of violence, but part and parcel of a coordinated and directed war that the West, thus far, has failed to confront with the same sense of purpose and power that enabled the Allies to defeat the Axis bloc in World War II.
This is the clear conclusion reached by an assembly of experts on terrorism. Soviet foreign policy, and NATO military policy, who met last month in Tel Aviv at a conference on State Terrorism and the International Situation, sponsored by the International Security Council (ISC).
The participants did more than wring their hands and recite the known list of atrocities that have been written in blood on the pages of the last 15 years. They singled out a "radical entente" of Soviet client states that provide the support network for most terrorist groups.
More importantly, they spelled out a plan of action to counter international terrorism, a program that must be spearheaded by the United States.
"The campaign of terror has become a regular form of warfare," the conference's Tel Aviv Declaration asserted.
"It is not deployed in a set battle with a direct confrontation of military forces, but is, for all that, a blunt and brutal military instrument, extremely flexible, adaptable to almost any circumstance, unpredictable in its thrusts," reads the
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