UNMASKING THE RADICAL ENTENTE

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Unmasking the
ARNOLD BEICIDIAN
The biggest and as yet uncom-
prehended geopolitical
story of the decade is that
five radical countries -
Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, and
Syria - are now operating an open
political-military alliance to achieve
as quickly as possible:
? Isolation and expulsion of the
United States from key regions of
the world, namely Western Europe,
the Pacific Rim, the Middle East,
and Africa;
? Extinction of the era of
capitalism and, by extension,
democracy
WASHINGTON TIMES
14 Marcy 19b5
adical Entente
We're their No. l target
Comprising what can be called
the Radical Entente, this core coali-
tion of five countries has the quiet
'backing - thus far at least, as their
arsenal - of the Soviet Union.
Beyond that, there is presently no
visible Soviet "smoking gun;' other
than the power of Soviet political
support and its worldwide propa-
ganda machine.
Although their ideologies -
Islamic fundamentalism vs.
Marxism-Leninism - seemingly
ought to clash, the Radical Entente
shares a common world view:
? Without U.S. support, the demo-
cratic world would crumble;
therefore the United States is the No.
1 target.
? Global strategy: stretch thin
American political and military
resources by instigating - if possi-
ble, simultaneously - provocative
and premonitory paramilitary
actions in widely separated world
areas:
What is astonishing about this
effort to stifle projection of U.S.
power is not merely that it is work-
ing. Rather it is that leaders in Con-
gress and West European governing
circles act as if they are unaware of
the existence of the Radical Entente.
They seem to regard events such as
overthrow of the shah of Iran or the
Somoza dictatorship, the campaign
against the unpopular Marcos
regime in the Philippines, the March
1983 Libyan bombardment of
Omdurman in the Sudan, and terror-
ist actions against U.S. Marines in
Lebanon and American soldiers in
Greece or Germany as discrete hap-
penings, rather than as events
planned toward achieving an openly
avowed geopolitical goal.
What can be stated with some cer-
tainty is that the Radical Entente as
an existing fact of international life
very much concerns President Rea-
gan, Secretary of State George
Shultz, and CIA Director William J.
Cam. Mr. Shultz's recent speeches
on how to deal with terrorism and
President Reagan's hard line on the
Sandinistas are an indication of their
awareness of the Radical Entente's
peril to the Free World. However,
they also know that pre-emptive
deployment of American military
power at times and places of the
president's own choosing may now
be out of the question in the face of
a pacifist-isolationist Congress and
the fear of the U.S. military that too
many overseas commitments would
exceed our present capabilities and
projected resources.
These reasons exist as to why the
United States is Target No.1 of these
five anti-status quo powers:
? As leader of the Free World, the
United States has ideological pre-
eminence because, as a successful
consumerist post-industrial democ-
racy, it affords a competitive ideo-
logical example to that.part of the
world burdened by totalitarian dic-
tatorships.
? American military-industrial
power when successfully deployed,
as in Grenada, directly threatens
Radical Entente ambitions.
? Only the United States stands in
the way of the Radical Entente's
aspirations to overthrow the demo-
cratic order.
? The Arab component of the
Radical Entente, namely, Syria and
Libya. hate the United States
because of its support of Israel and
moderate Arab states, such as Egypt
and Jordan.
The Radical Entente emerged
after 1978 as the result of the
Camp David peace process,
which, through U.S. mediation,
brought Egypt and Israel into suc-
cessful face-to-face negotiations.
Additional causes for the Radical
Entente's formation involved the fall
of the shah of Iran, the Sandinista
seizure of power in Nicaragua and,
above all, the election of Ronald Rea-
gan in 1980, which they correctly
foresaw would lead to a drastic alter-
ation of U.S foreign policy.
Evidence, which borders on the
irrefutable, for existence of the
Radical Entente has been adduced.
by Dr. Avigdor Haselkorn, senior
analyst at Analytical Assessments, a
division of the Eaton Corp. of
Cleveland.
For Mr. Haselkorn, terrorism is
but one of several Radical Entente
weapons of aggression against the
United States. For him the real ques-
tion to be asked is: Where does
"state-sponsored terrorism:' as it is
hued
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now called, fit into the Radical
Entente's co-ordinated overall
strategy, operational tactics, and
common ideology? There are other
weapons, besides terrorism: "peace"
propaganda, paramilitary wars of
"national liberation:' political and
ideological subversion of U.S. allies
and, of course, sinformation"
feints intended to confuse U.S. mili-
tary planners.
The evidence for Radical Entente
coordination of anti-U.S. aggression
policies is both rhetorical and
chronological. For example, in
March 1983, speaking at a banquet
welcoming Nicaragua's Daniel
Ortega Saavedra to North Korea, the
country's dictator, Kim 11-sung, said:
"If the people of the revolutionary
countries of the world put pressure
on and deal blows at U.S. imperial-
ism in all places where it stretches
its talons of aggression, they will
make it powerless and impossible to
behave as dominator any longer."
The key phrase, "in all places:' is one
frequently used by Radical Entente
spokesmen.
CASE HISTORY I
? Aug. 19,1981, U.S. fighters shoot
down two Libyan fighters over the
Gulf of Sidra opposite Libya. At this
point. Libya's news agency is fearful
that the consequences of the con-
frontation might harbinger an inva-
sion of Libya.
? Aug. 22. 1981, Gen. Hikmat
ash-Shihab, chief of the Syrian gen-
eral staff of the army and the armed
forces, arrives in Libya for discus-
sions with his Libyan counterpart.
The next day, a joint Syrian-Libyan
statement attacking the United
States as "the leader of terrorism" is
issued.,
? Aug. 24, 1981, Libya's dictator,
Muammar Qadaffi himself, arrives
in Damascus for talks with Syrian
President Hafez al-Assad.
? Aug. 26, 1981, for the first time
ever. North Korea fires a SAM-2
missile at a U.S. SR-71 reconnais-
sance plane flying over international
waters. The SR-71's operational ceil-
ing is such as to make the unprece-
dented firing of a North Korean
SAM a nominal threat. The warlike
act must have raised questions
among U.S. military assessors as to
North Korean intentions.
CASE HISTORY III
? Feb. 1, 1984, "Team Spirit 1984"
joint U.S.-South Korea exercises are
denounced by the North Korean
media, which calls them "intoler-
able"
? Feb. 21, 1984, the North Korean
ambassador to Syria tells a Socialist
Ba'ath leader about "the tense
situation in the Korean peninsula" as
a result of U.S. military maneuvers.
Similar meetings between other Syr-
ian leaders and the North Korean
diplomat were publicly reported in
later days.
? March 2, 1984. Col. Qaddafi
warned that some l:md of military
operation was in the offing - "We
must force America to fight on 100
fronts all over the earth. We must
force it to fight in Lebanon, to fight
in Chad, to fight in Sudan, and to
fight in El Salvador. Through the
people's war of liberation, we can
force America to fight on all fronts."
? March 14, 1984, the North
Korean news agency says that the
exercises are "heightening tension"
on the peninsula.
? March 16, 1984, a lone Libyan
TU-22 bomber dropped five bombs
on the Sudanese city of Omdurman,
killing five people. An unexploded
bomb was described as "Soviet-
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Mr. Hasclkorn sai
poses of stretching U.S. forces thin,
Nicaragua is. of course, an ideal
choice" because:
? It brings to a new region the pos-
sibility of forming "a widespread
anti-imperialist front:' so that the
United States could be bogged down
in Central America.
? Since Nicaragua, geo-
graphically, is close to Cuba, Radical
Entente support for anti-U.S. activi-
ties is thereby facilitated.
T he chronological evidence
confirms the coordination of
diversionary activities by the
Radical Entente states of Libya,
North Korea, and Syria. Specifically,
three case histories:
CASE HISTORY II
? Feb. 1, 1983, North Korea's Kim
11-sung places the entire country in
a "semi-war state:" The action fol-
lows the launching of military
maneuvers, known as the "Team
Spirit" exercises, by the U.S. Army
in conjunction with the South
Korean Army.
? Feb. 6, 1983, the Syrian Army
command denounces the "Team
Spirit" exercises as warlike, warns
against a U.S.-Japan-South Korea
"triangular military alliance"' and
announces that in case of war, Syrian
forces "will rush to the Korean
front:"
? Feb. 7, 1983, Col. Qaddafi sends
Kim Il-sung a "solidarity message"
denouncing the "Team Spirit 1983"
U.S.-Korea exercises.
? Feb. 14,1983, it becomes known
that President Reagan has ordered
four AWACS planes to Egypt from
Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma.
The action was taken following U.S.
intelligence reports of increased
Libyan military activity threatening
to Egypt, Sudan, Chad, and Tinisia.
The AWACS planes were removed
Aug. 22, 1983.
made." Official U.S. reaction to this
incident demonstrated difficulty in
explaining Libya's reason for the
bombing. If the Radical Entente the-
ory is accepted, the reason for the
bombing becomes luminously clear.
The above are truncated versions of
the chronology prepared by Mr.
Haselkorn. None of the events
described or cited are based on clas-
sified information. On the contrary,
the reports are taken from the pub-
lic record - translations from for-
eign newspapers and broadcasts.
The fuller chronologies are
quite persuasive that the Radi-
cal Entente has grabbed
America's Achilles Heel. With very
little military investment, the Radi-
cal Entente has made and will con-
tinue to make the United States jump
whenever and wherever it chooses.
Reactive military measures lost
the war in Vietnam. Sending a gun-
boat upriver to fire a few shots at
restless natives as a form of deter-
rence was a fine reactive European
tactic in the 19th century.
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However, we are no longer dealing
with restless natives but with, for
example, Iran. Its Moslem funda-
mentalism is spreading throughout
the world in places like Malaysia,
which once seemed immune to
Jihadian fanaticism. Or with Cuba,
which has been managing a conti-
nental campaign of subversion and
revolution for a quarter century.
The Radical Entente is a global
operation which will not be defeated
by reactive military measures or
passive defense like cement barri-
cades in front of government
buildings.
The first step which must be
taken is to inform the American pub-
lic what the Radical Entente means.
There is no better way of doing
that than public hearings before the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit-
tee under its new chairman, Sen.
Richard Lugar.
Arnold Beichman, a visiting
scholar at the Hoover Institution, is
a student of unconventional warfare.
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