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Defense and the Democrats (1980-08-15)
About this film
A high-energy duel between well-matched antagonists--though ones who agree, probably, on as much as they disagree on. Senator Moynihan had just, at the Democratic Convention, spoken approvingly of President Carter's defense policies--to, as WFB puts it, "my stupefaction and that of others." Today's discussion ranges from the bloodbath in Cambodia at the hands of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, to the Soviets' use of Cuban troops as proxies in Africa, to the theory of Mutual Assured Destruction. DPM: "We thought the Russians would build up to our level [in nuclear weapons]'parity' and then stop, because we thought they had the same view we had. It turned out they didn't. They have different tastes, they have different history, they have different attitudes."
Directors & creators
Southern Educational Communications Association
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, William F. Buckley Jr., Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Jimmy Carter, Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge, Democratic National Convention 1980, Cambodia, Africa, Soviet Union, Cuba, Mutual Assured Destruction, Nuclear arms race, Military policy, Cold War defense strategy
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