Volume 27, Number 18 · November 20, 1980
The Unhappy Choice
By Stanley Hoffmann
No American election campaign has ever provided the occasion for a thorough and enlightening national debate on foreign policy. All too often, the candidates' promises turned to dust as soon as the campaign was over—especially when it had been a promise to stay out of war. Since the beginning of the cold war, each presidential campaigner has tried to present himself both as a man of peace and as a firm champion of American strength and power. In this respect, 1980 offers nothing new.
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