The criticism that I think is more telling is that the only way you are going to knock out this terrorism eventually is not just through the forceofarms, but through the forceof ideas.
Mikhail Gorbachev clearly understands that the Soviet Union would jeopardize the current detente and attendant infusions of economic, financial and technological assistance from the West were Moscow to try through forceofarms to curb reforms now sweeping its erstwhile satellites.