Gorbachev’s ‘New Thinking’
In the last installment, Gorbachev summarizes two delusions which mock reason and peace: (that a continued U.S. arms race can) “bleed white the Soviet economy,” and (that American superior technology) “eventually in the military field,” can solve even U.S. problems.
It was painful to note that in comparison to some official U.S. pens, so deliciously zapped in freedom, his pen often made more sense.
He, like more perceptive Americans now and everyone soon, perceives that the world’s unleashed bullet makers and salesmen are enemies one and two.
He, like the late Bertrand Russell, writes of the close relationship between chauvinism and war.
Though he comes from an old, strange country, he thinks for himself, treats his wife with “new man” respect and, how backward, writes his own lines.
MARY GRIBBLE
San Marino
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