THE BROODING HAWKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100060031-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: February 10, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Approved For Release 2007/06/14: CIA-RDP99-004
NEW YORK TIMES
The Brooding Hawks
But there is a new element, an Intel- Mr. Warhke articulated exceptionally
lectual one. It includes strong support- well, under the pressures of the Senate
By Anthony LeWiS ers-of Israel who since the Yom Kippur hearing, the reasons for thinking that
War have become a significant factor effective arms limitation would make
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9-Tfiere is in the growing support for larger U.S. this country more secure, not- less:
a peculiar, almost venomous, intensity defense budgets. The magazine Com- He gave: the example of the U.S.
in some of the opposition to Paul mentary is at the heart of this ele- decision years ago to develop and'
Warnke as President--`Carter's chief ment along with such Senators as deploy missiles with multiple, in
arms control negotiator-a'. feeling Henry Jackson and Daniel Patrick ; dependently-targeted heads: MIRV's.
beyond the usual policy disagreement Moynihan. The New Republic, now a ' When the Soviets inevitably followed
in a democracy. It. is as if the oppo, leading pro-Israel voice, made a sus- suit, we ended up feeling less secure
nents have made him a symbol of tained attack on Paul Warnke before than if we had' managed Ito -stop the
something they dislike so much thaC the election. development on both sides.
they want to destroy him. '-. The military-intellectual complex, it - Of course it is not so easy to' get'
The feeling was in the air of the could be called. It is symbolized by effective, verifiable agreements. But
Senate Foreign Relations Committee the recently formed Committee on the the alternative is a competition with
hearings on the Warnke nomination,, Present Danger, whose members in- its own Gresham's Law: making the
admirably broadcast in extended sum-; clude John Connally, Lane Kirkland of arms balance progressively more ex-
mary by Public Television. It was the A.F.L.-C.I.O., Paul Nitze-and Nor- penive and less stable. Congressman
there in the impassioned critical man Podhoretz, editor of Commentary, Stratton falted Mr. Warnke for having
testimony of Representative Samuel opposed such weapons systems as
and Saul Bellow.: MIRV's and the antiballistic missile--
Stratton and in the letter from Paull; The common,thread of this coali-
Nitze opp a osing Mr. Warnke, his a if new hardware automatically pro-
duced intense' more security. History teaches
former Pentagon colleague. And it had j intentions. Conhern about a nation as that it does not. been there in the anonymous anti- powerful, secretive and authoritarian
Warnke memorandum circulated be-: p I President Carter made very similar
fare the hearing, as the U.S.S.R.. is right. Only a fool-; points, at his press conference, about
The nomination does not seem to believes that Soviet leaders are a. the potential gains for true security
be threatened in . the Senate. Mr, kindly lot who will make the world a and arms agreements. He made clear
Carter took the occasion of his first better place if we just trust them. But his own commitment 'to the effort--
Presidential press conference, on the it is outrageous- and dangerous-to= one much deeper than I had under-
im 1 an oze favorin arm limitation
day the Warnke hearings began, to
reaffirm his support of the nominee
and to endorse in remarkably strong
terms- the. Warnke view of. the
advantages of effective arms limitation.
The intensity of feeling of the oppo-
sition side is nevertheless important.
It signals a policy disagreement so
fundamental that any imaginable arms
limitation agreement with the Soviet
Union will face powerful resistance.
And it signals the rise of a new mili-
tant coalition on national security
issues. -
The new coalition has many strands.
The traditional right is there, along
with unreconstructed Vietnam hawks
and the labor and industrial and mili-
tary elements usually favoring higher
defense spending-
p y y = g s stood. The fact that he has those views
is such a fool. is doubtless what so greatly agitates-
The misrepresentation of Mr.. the critics of Paul Warnke.
Warnke's views is instructive in thism . Mr. Carter now knows the political
regard. Critics cited a past statement. resistance.he faces in the arms field.
by him to the effect that American He will be strengthened by having in
actions had inspired "the Soviet Union, his Administration 'Adm. Stansfield
to spend its substance on, military' Turner, his C.I.A. choice, .a military
manpower and weaponry." man of unusual breadth of intellect-
. But the mainspring of the super- -and James Schlesinger, one skeptic-
power arms race is precisely that each about Soviet intentions who argues
side's new weapons systems inspire. Policy without .personal assault. He
the other's. Mr. 'Warnke was looking has in Mr. Warnke a man of incisive
at the side that we can almost im-:mind who can stay cool under pres-
mediately affect: ourselves. The point' sure. And in the end the President-may.
he was mak ng-has been making for find, as John Kennedy did, that careful
years-is that we Americans, believing, steps toward peace generate their own
ourselves rational, should try the first popular support,
steps to stop the spiral of increased.
Approved For Release 2007/06/14: CIA-RDP99-00498R000100060031-4