Now I know why the United States is slowly withdrawing its forces from Asia. As the briefing given us by the State Dept., the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] and the military indicates, they do not believe that there will be any hostilities in Asia, the Soviet Union is superior in a [big?] way to China militarily but will not initiate any attack on China and China realizes it is not capable of initiating such attack.
So the United States can safely leave Asia including Southeast Asia to itself for the meantime. The guarded statements refer to the period—from three to five years.
I had the briefing taped. I will attach the transcript.
And again, I have a feeling (all the indications point to it) that the U.S. has made a deal with China to pull out its ground troops but for China to hold back North Korea from attacking. Anyway, I hope so. I would have if I were in the place of the U.S.
In reviewing the book I am preparing for on human rights, I note that the confusion between the First World represented by President [James] Carter of the United States and the Third World as symbolized by us in the Philippines is due to the age old and mostly legalist conflict between the freedom of the individual as represented by the Due Process Clause and the power of the State as represented by police power.
The confusion arises out of the presumption that modem governments have not reconciled these two ends of protecting both individual as well as the community rights—which they have. Thus was coined the term police power of the state which limits the individuals freedom.
On the level of the nations there is no irreconcilability between the Third World and the First World. The conflict still is between state power more pronounced in the Third World because it is in crisis and the First World which emphasizes individual freedom because their states are stable and the citizens are economically contented.
And this has been reconciled in all modern governments.
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