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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, SEPTEMBER 13, 1985
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The call for sanctions in the liberal West feeds this swirling cycle of
revolution and right-wing reaction. Nevertheless, President Reagan was
forced by political circumstances on September 9 to enact several
executive orders involving trade and investment restrictions in U.S.
South African commerce. He did this against his better judgment in
hopes that the U.S. Congress would back off of enacting tougher
sanctions that he could not stop. But Congress won't give upi it will
certainly push for more later. One strange footnote: When Senator
Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming moved to apply the same kind of sanctions to
the Soviet Onion, Ethiopia and other Communist countries, the Senate
rejected his motion by 57 to 37.
·A few weeks ago,• reported the editors of the NATIONAL REVIEW
(September 20), •everyone was calling terrorism 'our No. 1 enemy in the
world today' 1 •
But now, U.S. officials demand that the African
National Congress, which conducts a terrorist campaign to make South
Africa •ungovernable,• be included in any political settlement in South
Africa. Why, asked the editors of NATIONAL REVIEW, do Western liberals
often end up supporting the same side as Moscow? Their answer:
Communist strategists divide the world into two zones--the
•zone of peace• and the •zone of war.• The zone of peace
is that which has already fallen under Communist rulei it
is no longer to be contested. •what we have, we keep,•
said Leonid Brezhnev, explaining the Soviet version of
property rights. The zone of war, of course, is every
thing else: Communism regards the non-Communist world as
up for grabs•
• • • Pro-western regimes are always eligible for liberal
moral censure--especially, oddly enough, when they are
also the sites of Communist insurrection. But as soon as
a formerly pro-Western country enters the socialist camp
is acquires a nearly total exemption from moral criticism.
It becomes a •reality,• beyond good and evil, and
criticism becomes •cold-war rhetoric•--a liberal taboo.
Liberal rhetoric directs morality at areas within the zone
of war1 it concedes •reality,• in this warped sense, to
the zone of peace. In short, Communism supplies the guns,
and liberals supply the moralism•••• It is entirely
predictable that if a Marxist-Leninist regime (already
waiting in the wings) comes to power in South Africa, no
amount of repression and bloodshed will touch the liberal
conscience.
Protectionism: Forerunner of World Depression?
·A tidal wave of protectionist reprisal on Capital Hill threatens
nations exporting goods to the United States and may wrack havoc with
President Reagan's relations with Congress.• So writes John McLaughlin
in the August 9 NATIONAL REVIEW.
President Reagan believes in free
trade. He defends his economic policies by pointing to the millions of
jobs created during his tenure in office. But many of these jobs are
in the service area. Hundreds of thousands of jobs are fading from
older manufacturing fields. Representatives of these fading businesses