"Hawaii is," Mr. Buckley begins, "as the Japanese emphasized at Pearl Harbor, a

tiny American salient, thrust two thousand miles into the Pacific Ocean. But it is

irrevocably ours, as much so as Kansas or Nebraska. U.S. Asian policy, on the other hand, is made at the other end of the American world, in Washington. What does that shift in perspective do?" Actually, not much, according to our three guests: in a nuclear world proximity matters much less than it did in 1941. But Admiral Vasey is disturbed by the Carter Administration's "isolationist strategy," and General Weyand takes on the question of canceling our treaty with Taiwan: "Now if you're talking about totally withdrawing our commitment [so] that we'll stand by and watch them seize Taiwan by force and thereby deny or abrogate all of the ideals and values that we have about force being used to conquer or dominate or dictate men's way of life--" WFB: "Wait a minute. We consider this an internal affair. We made that plain at Shanghai." FW: "Well, I don't consider it an internal affair." WFB: "Yes, but you're not President." FW: "No. That's true." WFB: "You keep forgetting." FW: "I keep forgetting, unfortunately."