Honorable Henry A. Kissinger

July 25, 1983

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the views of those who think the whole project of solving the problems
of Central America by means of unilateral U.S. military intervention is
a lot of nonsense. (I should add that, though I am extremely skeptical
about the course for reasons suggested in the attached column, I am not
nominating myself as a witness. There are many people available who have
followed the situation in much closer detail than I have.)

Good luck! I wish your group would adopt this Niebuhr quote as an
epigraph for your report: "Escape from our ironic situation obviously
demands that we moderate our conceptions of the ability of men and
nations to discern the future; and of the power of even great nations
to bring a tortuous historical process to, what seems to them, a logical
and proper conclusion."

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