European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes James Kilpatrick april 1977 Carter Energy mishmash is woefully wrong the big when it comes to formulating an Energy is not the survival of Jimmy it is the survival of our our natural tendency to personalize Public issues tends to obscure the larger last week in Washington the talk was mostly of or would his popularity suffer could he whip dissenting senators into line would his leadership succeed in marshalling Public support for his legislative measure Carters fortunes dont really matter or at least they ought not to if a National Energy policy is approached in terms of a Carter policy or a democratic everyone will lose in the resulting precisely As wars arc too serious to be left to so an Energy policy is too vital to entrust to if this critical problem is to be it will demand a level of statesman ship Seldom seen around our and it will demand a maturity no yet demonstrated by our freewheeling in my own is plainly right in his general in terms of our Energy we Are indeed on a collision course with this is no novel spokesmen for the utilities and the Petroleum companies have been sounding the same Catonia warn Ings for 20 it is an oversimplification to say that the world is swiftly running out of enough Oil round be recovered from West pm or from deep offshore or from other to last for Genera what we Are running out of is Oil at a that can be absorbed without world wide economic upheaval and without grave risk of environmental but if Carter is clearly right in his general he is woefully wrong in his specific proposals at heis proposing to use the taxing Power in order to with the Market he proposes a plan of tax credits and tax rebates that would produce an administrative his deterrents Are mostly puny his incentives Are generally nothing in his program would con tribute significantly to capital formation within the Energy his gestures toward the development of new forms of Energy Are merely the program is a com pounded of Wise concern on the one hand and political palaver on the Conser vation is essential of course it is Essen tial but the kind of conservation Carter is talking about cannot be achieved on the it is absurd to say that his measures would add Only to the rate of inflation a More accurate projection is twice or three times that it is misleading to suggest that these things can be done without Adverse environmental Carter is gulling the people with his notion that their easy and extravagant Way of life and Standard of living can be the Power government ought to be it seems to incisively and in a few areas we need realistic deter rents against inefficiency in the use of and we need realistic incentives for the rapid development of alternative if Congress will provide this the free marketplace can do the c Wnm Gunsur John Roche retired Marine general fills big literary Gap 1976 the Bicentennial of our in dependence was american history Complete with Battle re enactments and symbolic absolution from Queen Elizabeth ii now we arc off to other although the men who launched the War of Independence found 1777 a year of crucial testing a Strong Case can to made that the establishment of the United states of America As a Sovereign state occurred because from 177581 Brit ish outpaced american Dis what brought this to mind was a belated Reading of Samuel Griffiths in defense of the Public Liberty Over a Hundred books on my shelves Deal with various facets of the civilization that devel oped on these shores in the 17th and 18th centuries and its break with but there Lias always been a fearful we simply do not have a Good synoptic work fitting the various pieces in or we didst general Griffith has in provided a masterful description of the relations Between Brit America and other Powers from 1760 to the Battle of Yorktown m this is not a study of High but of human beings at ground warts and Oliver Wendell once observed that facts Only made sense in a proper conceptual the strength of Griffiths Book is his command of the conceptual music As Well As the to be he realizes that the americans did in any meaningful launch a Oil the they were resisting a revolutionary British cab Teiml in columns on Nom do Ine in no to by Tonto term View of Start of try United attempt to deprive them it their established of their Public in other the War of Independence was fought to prevent a to resist the imposition of British rules and regulations foreign to our constitutions As Jeffer son put it in the declaration of ind Epen in took their Freedom for granted and built a social system slav Ery notably excepted that implemented and reinforced All this took place while the British were looking the other fighting endless european wars and a civil War of their when the american provinces began to resist taxation in the Only a handful of englishmen realized they were not dealing with a few rambunctious but with an entrenched social system and As talented a group of politicians As Ever walked the when in 1775 push came to the Kings ministers did everything their first Assumption was that a Token show of Force and the seizure of major cities would bring the americans to their the second was that the traitors were a Small that once redcoats appeared on the scene the vast bulk of the population would rally to the to implement these they sent a group of marginally competent generals off to America to pacify the but the scenario was maybe you won a War with a european Power by occupying the population but less than 5 per cent of our population was the rest were Farmers by the so the British took new Savannah for varying periods of but nothing much happened except they had More Mouths to if they sent a patrol out guns would go off behind Walls and bad linked to this was the failure of the Loyal masses to to join Royal american not Only was the number of tories but service in the Kings american forces was a High risk occupation when captured by Washington troops they were often summarily particularly in the nothing went by the Book so one improvised Campaign after another was Laid on with disastrous re not that George Washington got much rest he had his own american that anarchic Streak that seems to go with the take new Hampshire John for example a skilled Frontier fight he and his militia crippled Burgoyne invasion but they were averse to foreign to defend or John Sevier and his who literally dropped in on the annihilated a British regiment at Kings and returned Home what makes Griffiths study unique is the Superb fashion in which he slots in diplomatic London at american political and the course of the read it and you will understand Why in when the Duke of Wellington was asked to Lead British against the his Para was never fight a land War in
