"Although Mr. Kissinger said it ever so carefully in his famous interview," Mr.

Buckley begins, "his words were, 'I am not saying that there's no circumstance where we would not use force, but it is one thing to use it in the case of a dispute over price; it's another where there's some actual strangulation of the industrialized world.' There was an international uproar, as if the Marines had already been dispatched to the Persian Gulf." Mr. Tucker had then published a piece in Commentary exploring how the OPEC cartel had developed, how it might be broken, and how oil affected America's position in the Cold War world. RWT: "You gave a certain degree of urgency and immediacy and clarity to this operation that I didn't quite give in my piece. What I said in the piece was--" WFB: "That tends to happen when I mingle with academic folk." RWT: "Understandably. What I said in the piece was that we should have thought from the very beginning ... that one possible outcome of this crisis ... could very well be a military outcome ... I'm very much against... this conspiracy of silence."