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Without Kissinger's work in the Middle East, with Sadat especially, I doubt if the Camp David Agreements five years later would have happened. His achievements over detente, the seeds of trust he sowed in a very distrustful and hostile Moscow, helped over a long period. Alistair Horne

Work Trust Long Doubt Later East Would Seeds Detente Kissinger David Long Period He Hostile Over Moscow Period Without His Years Camp Very Five Achievements Middle Middle East Happened Helped Agreements

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest. Jeane Kirkpatrick

Power Military Believe Detente Having Almost Sort Build-Up Contest Opposite Effect End Expansion Intended Soviet Stop Means

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril. Jeane Kirkpatrick

World Dangerous Think Detente More Pursuit Had Failed Peril Rendering Greater Encouraging Western Western World Expansion Soviet

In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente. Jeane Kirkpatrick

You Will Before Control Think Carter Detente Spirit Both Had Period Arms Years Soviets Just Regularly Agreements Violated

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