Letters, Feb. 5, 1979

Beyond Iran

To the Editors:

In your article on the Crescent of Crisis [Jan. 15] you quote Zbigniew Brzezinski as saying, "I'd have to be blind or Pollyannish not to recognize that there are dark clouds on the horizon." On the horizon." It is clear that those clouds are already formed—right over our heads. To say otherwise is at best Pollyannish, and at worst irresponsibly myopic.

Paul L. Gomory Jr.

San Francisco

Objectivity would require the addition of the American eagle looking from the west with a gaze as interested and predatory as that of the...

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