evidence: And yet now, for the first time in a great many years, the party that is not in the White House has concluded reluctantly that for the sake of the country it now has to abandon that tradition of bipartisan support. In a position paper issued this year, the Republican Party said, in a landmark statement: "The time has come when Republicans must balance their responsibility as citizens with their tradition of bipartisanship." Former Senator Bill Brock, the Republican National Chairman, said: "We have all watched American foreign policy deteriorate in its effectiveness, coordination and international impact during the past two years with first amusement, then concern and now a deep anxiety." [...] That’s not an exaggeration. A look around the world makes it very clear that we are talking about survival. The loss of American influence and power is a very real threat to this country and its security. [...] The foreign policy of this country must be challenged and changed. We must stop the deterioration of our military strength; we must stop negotiating disarmament treaties which disarm us without equally disarming our enemies; we must develop a policy that will stop the Russian and Cuban advances in the Middle East and Africa; we must re-establish a presence in the Pacific; we must strengthen our intelligence gathering capabilities, our trade policies and the value of the dollar in relation to the currencies of other countries.