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gions. Nobody can sit down and say “the” answer to terrorism is this or that. It depends on where it is and what it is.
It can’t be anticipated very well.
‘...the technologically
advanced weapons
they (the Russians)
have are those they have stolen from us.’
We could do a good deal better job than we have in protecting ourselves. It was inexcusable for the marine barracks in Beirut to be blown up as it was. Inexcusable! It’s infuriating that those in charge and responsible for it have never been punished. Somebody should have paid for that because it wfis sheer, gross negligence on the part of the military.
The blowing up of the embassy twice was gross negligence on the part of the diplomatic corps. They could have prevented that, they didn’t. Beyond that, I don’t know the answer to (terrorism). I don’t think anyone else does. Rappahannock News: Are you against reprisals? Brinkley: I agree with Reagan on that. I would retaliate if I knew who the guilty parties were and where they were and if I could get at them without killing a lot of other innocent people in the process. We could easily bomb Beirut tomorrow and kill, Lord knows, how many people. And we may not even get the terrorists at all. It’s an extremely difficult problem and there is no good answer to it. Rappahannock News: Should U.S. policies be held responsible in any way for the rise in terrorism? Brinkley: I think in the cases I’ve just mentioned some Americans should be held responsible for the fact that (terrorists) have been so successful. Rappahannock News: There has been talk in some circles of the idea of moral equivalence between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Is there moral equivalence between the two nations or do you see the U.S. as being on a higher moral plain than the Soviet Union? Brinkley: Of course I do. There is no moral equivalence. The Soviet government got to where it is now by killing approximately 20 million of its own people. We have done nothing like that. (In the Soviet Union) people are
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