It is important to emphasize the basic difference between tar baby and the previous American approach to southern Africa. As defended by Morris and its other creators, the new approach was designed to assist peaceful change in the area. The danger was that if it failed to meet its purpose, the new policy would simply provide a thin excuse for normalization of relations with the white regimes.

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From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing for ever.

universal prejudice had made men regard a refusal of this intercommunity as the most brutal of all dissociability.