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Peddlers of Crisis Peddlers of Crisis The Committee on the Present Danger and the Politics of Containment Jerry W. Sanders South End Press Boston, MA Copyright © 1983 Jerry W. Sanders First Edition Copyrights are required for book production in the United States. However, is our case, it is a disliked necessity. Thus, any properly footnoted quotation of up to five hundred sequential words may be footnoted without permission, so long as the total number of words quoted does not exceed two thousand. For longer continuous quotations or for a greater number of total words, authors should write for permisson to South End Press. Library of Congress Card Catalog Number: 83-060176 ISBN 0-89608-181-8 paper ISBN 0-89608-182-6 cloth Cover design by Ann L. Raszmann First published in the United States by South End Press 302 Columbus Ave Boston, MA 02116 First published in Great Britian by Pluto Press The Works 105a Torriano Ave London, England For my sons, and their generation CONTENTS Acknowledgements xi Foreword by Alan Wolfe 1 Introduction: THE OMNIPRESENT DANGER 7 1 NSC-68: THE MILITARIZATION OF CONTAINMENT 23 The Soviet Threat 29 The Containment of Neutralism 35 The Logic of Containment Militarism 38 2 THE POLITICS OF MILITARISM: INTERNATION ALISM AND ISOLATIONISM RECONSIDERED 51 Resurgent Isolationism: Prelude to the Great Debate 54 Construction of the Vast Propaganda Machine 60 The Committee on the Present Danger and the Internationalist Foreign Policy Network 70 Internationalism and Isolationism Reinterpreted 77 3 SHAPING THE COLD WAR CONSENSUS: ELITE CONFLICT AND MASS LEGITIMATION 85 The Great Debate 88 The Mac Arthur Controversy: The CPD Reacts to the Threat to NSC-68 97 From the Legitimation of a Principle to the Implementation of a Policy 106 The Transition from Vigilantism to Stewardship 111 Legitimating Containment Militarism: A Means and an End 114 4 NSC-68 TO THE TET OFFENSIVE: THE LONG MARCH OF CONTAINMENT MILITARISM 119 The Fifties: An Era of Limits 120 The Gaither Report: Proclamation of an End to Limits 125 The Thousand Days and the Institutionalization of Containment Militarism 130 Johnson’s War: The Logic of NSC-68 Applied 133 Tet: Denouement of Containment Militarism 137 viii PEDDLERS OF CRISIS 5 DETENTE: THE REAWAKENING OF THE GREAT DEBATE 149 Strategy of Appeasement 160 Arms Limitation: Two Views 164 Trade: The Calculus of Managerialism 171 The Intra-Elite Struggle Unfolds 178 The Establishment A House Divided 183 6 BELLWETHER OF RESURGENT MILITARISM 191 The Team B Report: NSC-68 Update 197 The Anti-Wamke Campaign: Emergence of the New Cold War Coalition 204 The Merger of Clausewitz and Keynes: Ideological Underpinnings of the New Cold War Coalition 210 Reconstruction of the Propaganda Machine: The Organizational Infrastructure of the New Cold War Coalition 217 7 RESHAPING THE COLD WAR CONSENSUS: CARTER’S ODYSSEY FROM GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE TO GLOBAL CONFRONTATION 235 Era Two: One Foreign Policy for Hawks — Another For Doves 241 Era Two Tilts to the Right 247 The Assault on SALT 254 The Managerial Collapse: Elite Conflict and Mass Politics Again 263 8 CONTAINMENT MILITARISM FOR THE 1980s: REAGAN AND THE CPD REARM AMERICA 277 The CPD Stamps Its Imprimatur on the Next Administration 281 “Hitting the Ground Running” 289 Human Rights Takes on a New Look 293 Arms Control: The Transparent Illusion 305 9 FOUNDERING ON THE SHOALS OF REALITY 317 Pax Americana in Disrepair 318 European Protest Paves a New Way 324 Contents ix The Movement Spreads Across the Atlantic 328 Reagan Counterattacks 332 The CPD Vigilantes Ride Again 338 Beyond Containment — Beyond Militarism 342 Bibliography 350 Index 362
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