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Brainwashing II[edit]
Transcript[edit]The Soviet Union's Nicolai Ogarkov has delivered a message to the American people. He says, "You once had military superiority and felt secure. You no longer have that superiority and you will never have it again. And now you will know what it means to feel threatened." On the last broadcast I called attention to a new invention of the Soviets which could make their tanks invulnerable to present day anti- tank weapons. It would not protect them against our neutron weapon. That is, if we had it. The June issue of The Officer, the official Reserve officers journal, carried a story based on data and material authenticated by the American Security council and presented by Major General J . Milnor Roberts. The article opened with what the General called a "worst case" scenario. Let me read portions of that scenario to you. QUOTE -- "Suddenly and without warning, hundreds of Soviet-bloc divisions spearheaded by 15,000 assault tanks and amphibious armour, spin from Warsaw pact maneuvers and lunge westward. Their target, the English Channel. "Swarms of Soviet warplanes, armed with missiles , bombs and cannisters of death dealing chemicals, strike NATO bases and stockpiles of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons. "Outnumbered and out gunned, allied forces retreat before the massive Communist blitzkrieg. At sea, Soviet submarines prepositioned hours before intercept and attack U.S. convoys attempting to rush reinforcements. Behind the lines, Communist saboteurs emerge in Western Europe cities and industrial centers, creating widespread havoc. "With Western Europe about to be overrun, the President of the United States is faced with a life or death decision; to accept the Soviet conquest of all Europe or to unleash American nuclear counterforce , thereby risking a worldwide holocaust." --UNQUOTE The General admits this "worst case" scenario may never happen. But he does say the possibility that it might is the constant nightmare of allied leaders. Then he quotes General Haig, our Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, "The greatest single threat to stability and peace continues to reside -- as it has for 29 years -- in the immediate presence of massive Soviet military power ... the greatest peace time aggregation of military power the world has ever seen." UNQUOTE The article then goes on to catalog the statistics of Soviet power and the continued retreat by the U.S. over the last couple of decades. In 1962 (the time of the Cuban missile crisis) our superiority was so great that Kruschchev had no choice but to back down. Eleven years later in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war Soviet power was such that a threat by them to intervene in that war forced the Israelis to halt their drive against Egypt. Our Chief of Naval Operations said, "had there been a confrontation between the United States and Russia in the Eastern Mediterranean, we would have lost." Production of the neutron weapon could eliminate the nightmare of that "worst case" scenario at best and, at least, buy us some much needed time. This is Ronald Reagan. Thanks for listening. |
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