Ford hadn't done much better than Crockett.
Not that Ford hasn't been doing his best to beat Reagan at his own game. Recently he commented: *Detente was only a word that was coined. I don't think it is applicable any more.
Kissinger has also been trying to show that he is not the liberal liability that the American press make him out to be. To voters in Arizona, he denied all stories of the US being second best, adding: "I am here to tell you that America remains and will remain the most powerful nation in the world."
Secret There is more to this hairy-chested rhetoric than votes. A secret meeting of US ambassadors held in London in December heard Kissinger say: 'We must contain the Soviets and prevent their expansion either through Western weakness or through the application of military force.
But despite the claims of Communist Parties all over the world, this is not a return to the Cold War situation in Europe. Kissinger went on to say:
*The Soviets are not the key element that is produčing the instabilities in Western Europe. A Communist Western Europe would be a headache for us. It would be a headache for the Soviets as well. They probably prefer not to see Communist powers taking over in Western Europe.' What the American ruling class President Ford stood outside the Alamo in Texas, where Davy Crockett went down against vastly superior Mexican military forces. He had chosen this historic site to rebuff Ronald Reagan's claim that US foreign policy amounted to acting 'as if we expected the Soviets to inherit the earth'. A few days later, Reagan swept to a landslide victory in the Republican primary in Texas.
fears above all is not Soviet expansionism, but the revolt of the Western European working class.
The Cold War in Europe saw threats of direct military intervention in Italy and the open sponsoring of counter-revolutionary forces in Greece. US imperialism still has the capacity to make such an intervention, but the defeats suffered by imperialism in Vietnam and Angola indicate the turn of the tide.
ment. Most important of all, such neo-fascist MSI, or more directly -the Italian working class.