European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes August 1977 Cdr Fer resents advice from military figures since president Carter announced the demise of the by bomber on june there has been time to lift All the jubilation and dismay and assess when and Bow that fateful decision was most pundits and partisans expressed Surprise that Carter killed the the following facts suggest that the decision had been inevitable Tor some candidate Carter told the democratic convention a year ago that the by was a Unnic did he in his inaugural that he hoped to eliminate All nuclear weapons from the if columns comments we Are to have no nuclear clearly there is no need to provide the most effective system for their after his Carter selected a vice Walter Mondale of who had voted against every legislative proposal for increased arms who had vigorously opposed every new weapons system and who was the Darling of the unilateral disarmament after election in november and before inauguration in Carter selected transition teams of Young leftists or lib eral most of whom were ardently Anli military against the Strate nuclear triad and who were dedicated devoted to cutting defense Bud he had selected to head the Cia a dedicated Theodore and to head the disarmament Agency Paul a Well known unilateral disarmament he also selected As Secretary of defense Harold an advocate of defense budget continued unilateral disarmament and one who May have a guilt com plex concerning nuclear because of his leadership at Livermore where several nuclear weapons were More Carter expressed irritation with intelligence estimates calling at Tention to the obvious Effort of the soviets to gain military he had cautioned against inordinate fear of rus Sian military  in if and cartoons on thit  of it Aulbort Art in no Way 14 by cont Dorod Ftp reaming him Vivot of int Surl or United rebuffed by Congress in is selection of Sorenson to head the he selected a naval Academy stans Field who now will function As an intelligence Czar who could be expected to Supply the president with favourable Intelli gence estimates to support his Carter has shown Little regard for Mili tary having pardoned draft Dodg ers and stopped the production of minuteman i missiles and Cut defense contrary to the counsel of experienced military he has also made it quite Clear that unsolicited advice to him and to Congress from military of de sense May be the Liberal lobby against the the most pervasive propaganda Campaign Ever launched against any weapons had asserted continually that approval of the by would be consid ered an unforgivable breach of a Campaign the pacifists also pointed out that cancellations of the by would give the president a fortuitous Opportunity to put detente and Salt ii Back on the it appears that this advice unilateral disarmament there is Little apprehension of russian military defense budgets will be sharply in we now know How Carters pro posed Cut of billion in Fords defense budget was to be the Elimina Tion of the by matches that military advice will not be allowed to in Trude in weapons in the by never had a George will Kissinger misses holding Power Washington after being dismissed from office in the Austri an said to his now sommes out marts we Are dead All perhaps Henry Kissinger Felt like saying something like that to Nancy last like Beethoven going deaf or James Joyce going Kissinger going from office suffered a particularly severe Dep i the magnetic Needle of his life always has pointed toward but he is cursed with More Energy and Public purpose than he can find in steady employment in a government such As popular government does not permit however to make an uninterrupted career of diplomacy at the High est time co realize this few nonsense of t life is supposed to be sherbet As Well As and Kissinger May have thought retirement from office would mean Relief from the Rigours of instead he has found himself facet face with something disagreeable Blank pages on which he must write us they should be a Worth Reading for thought As Well As eight hears he was one of the few islands of cultivation in the harmlessness of the Nixon White a mastiff in a Kennel of today his unmistakable substance is magnified by inevitable comparisons with the new who still seem to be a couple of weeks Kissinger Suc Cyrus the Man in washing ton with the most difficult act to was in Kissinger said that for the first time he wished he were Back in har he does not tack Confidence in but the Middle East was the stage Roost suited to the virtuosity that became the trademark of his personal during the latter Hall of his tenure kiss Inger was frequently accused of fashioning of Concession and retrenchment to fit the pessimism he was said to fed about prospects for the today he in his mildly he sees a narrow pass if navigated by presi Dent will enable Carter to bequeath to his successor a strategic position better than any enjoyed by the since the late if by 1985 the threat of euro comm ism has been surmounted in Western and if chivas Power grows in spite of centripetal forces of Disi Tegra then the soviet Union will be a Stag Nant society facing two Strong Kissinger believes that the soviet Union has no solution to the Central problem of communist it has no role for the communist other than one for which the party a relic originally designed for seizing and securing Power is that Ota mandarin Kissinger confronted the same and Mao could find no response other than periodically kicking Over the he inflicted Tav Ignotaf ing but Dis organizing storms on his but what Kissinger does not say is that Mao was a revolutionary to the and the current soviet leadership is composed of Creaky old bureaucrats unacquainted with revolution and willing to Send Unks to Prague in order to remain the soviet Union is saddled with a medi Ocre governing class that is itself governed by the inexorable slowing of the annual economic growth rate to about per cent the soviet Union is dependent on Western technology and and will become More so Western Socie ties become even More dynamic relative to soviet by the Kissinger thinks the restless classes in the soviet Union will be growing even and asking More insistently after 70 years in the communist system is still producing re sults increasingly inferior to those produced by Western european then socialism in one country Wittl seem less an achieve sent than a indictment Kissinger can be on the Side of the United states if for the foreseeable future probably for the duration of the Carter presidency djo Jamacy Aims not at great breakthroughs but at contain ing soviet allowing time to do its work of widening the cracks in soviet so Al no How gun