Nation: Dour Tour

Kissinger gives his world view

The contrast between the two approaches to U.S. foreign policy could hardly have been more marked. President Carter, addressing the American Society of Newspaper Editors, concentrated almost entirely on two specific crises, Iran and Afghanistan, and strongly defended his actions in each. The next speaker, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, went far beyond those issues to deliver a sweeping global critique. He charged the Administration with lacking a world view that would produce a consistent policy and offered one of his own in a dour tour d'horizon of impressive scope.

"I happen to agree with President Carter...

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