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We Can Prevent World War III, by Sam Cohen (Jameson Books, 129 pp., $16.95)

In this rambling book, Sam Cohen expresses strong opinions about U.S. foreign policy and defense strategy, aggressively dissenting from much accepted opinion on these topics. His position is more or less isolationist, except in this hemisphere. At the beginning of Reagan’s first term, he tells us, he was interviewed for a national-security position. A high-ranking official “with a very distinguished background in foreign policy” told Cohen that “the world had become a jungle where the revered principle of international law had largely been discarded.” Cohen agreed and told the man that “we ought to get out of that jungle as fast as we can, to avoid nuclear war.” The man “froze” and Cohen didn’t get the job.

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We Can Prevent World War III, by Sam Cohen (Jameson Books, 129 pp., $16.95)

In this rambling book, Sam Cohen expresses strong opinions about U.S. foreign policy and defense strategy, aggressively dissenting from much accepted opinion on these topics. His position is more or less isolationist, except in this hemisphere. At the beginning of Reagan’s first term, he tells us, he was interviewed for a national-security position. A high-ranking official “with a very distinguished background in foreign policy” told Cohen that “the world had become a jungle where the revered principle of international law had largely been discarded.” Cohen agreed and told the man that “we ought to get out of that jungle as fast as we can, to avoid nuclear war.” The man “froze” and Cohen didn’t get the job.