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Brinkley: One thing that turns people off is when there is some kind of event like the hostages being brought out in Beirut and there’s a huge crowd of press their from all over the world and they begin shouting and pushing and shoving. It looks bad, I agree.
But, like a lot of other aspects of American life, you can have freedom and disorder, or you can have dictatorship where everything is neat and quiet and well-organized. So what’s your choice? Mine is to have freedom and disorder.
If you own a 100-watt radio station in some country town in the Midwest, and if you want to hire a reporter and if you want to pay his way to Beirut — there’s no one to say you can’t do it. So you get a huge crowd of people. Rappahannock News: If you were the president, how would you approach the problem of terrorism? Brinkley: It’s a question for the political leadership of the whole world. There’s no single answer to it. There are various kinds of terrorists. For several years — they seem to have stopped now-we had Puerto Ricans bombing New York City because they wanted independence for Puerto Rico, which they could have tomorrow if they wanted it, if they asked for it.
We now have the Sikhs accused of blowing up airplanes and so on. They did kill Madam Gandhi. We have all kinds of terrorists in the Middle East from various groups, factions, reli
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