Taking a Fresh Look

Windhoek, Namibia. The Geneva Conference on Namibia should have failed.

The UN election plan would have ushered Namibia into the Soviet embrace, greatly to our strategic disadvantage. The Western Five were cast as the executioners, the Front-Line States as the vultures on the fence. Now that the Conference has collapsed for the time being, the United States should take the opportunity to retrieve the Namibian prize and rescue its people. No other nation can.