Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.life From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: COLD WAR DOVES MOVE UP IN PECKING ORDER Date: Tue, 27 Oct 92 13:27:07 EST Message-ID: \SE E;LIFE;DEFECTION OF THE NEOCONS \HD COLD WAR DOVES MOVE UP IN PECKING ORDER \BY Cathryn Donohoe \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES To judge by this year's election campaign, the fall of the Soviet Union - and the disappearance of the "balance of terror" that held even small nations' ambitions in check - did more than scramble international relations. It's made chaos of domestic political alliances as well. Now the party that trademarked the Vietnam syndrome - the resistance to the idea of American intervention anywhere, any time - is wooing internationalists upset that in trouble spots such as Bosnia, the architect of Desert Storm is not interventionist enough. Or as Penn Kemble, a senior associate at the human rights group Freedom House puts it: "What's remarkable to me is that Republicans who spoke very eloquently on human rights in communist countries don't care now that the Soviet missiles are gone." Mr. Kemble is among the so-called neoconservatives, or "Reagan Democrats," mustering now in Bill Clinton's camp. At first "hesitant and suspicious" about the Clinton approach, he says, he's been impressed by the campaign's willingness to listen to neoconservative views. Joshua Muravchik, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute who describes himself as "a believer in global democracy," is of like mind. "We're twiddling our thumbs on Yugoslavia while women and children are being killed," he says. Yet he, too, is cautious and confused. "The Cold War doves are hawks, and the Cold War hawks are split," he says. "I had a lot of disagreements with these people - the old Carter-McGovern crowd - and I'm not sure whether I disagree with them less, more or the same amount. Why should they have changed just because the Cold War is over?" What he intends to do, he says, is watch major appointments like those of the secretaries of state and defense. If Mr. Clinton's appointees are Jimmy Carter clones, that will reveal a great deal, he says. Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ronald Reagan's U.N. ambassador, is not officially affected by such turmoil: She became a Republican. Yet she's watching for the same signs. "When Bill Clinton cites people in speeches, it's usually from what would be called the mainstream of the party," she says. "But when he appoints people to do things, they're usually people who were formerly in the Carter administration." "But I have nothing to do with this," she makes it clear. Maybe Mrs. Kirkpatrick is better off for that. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM