European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 01, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 1, 1980 the stars and stripes Page 15 William Safire a no cover up analysis of Iran failure needed the main thir4$ is to avoid Elvis it our ow/4 lawyers learn that clients lie presidents learn that the military  so says a Washington lawyer who has been a trusted adviser to More than one demo cratic  the Bay of pigs disaster president Kennedy appointed a task Force to investigate what had gone wrong in the decision making process. Its purpose was not to find scapegoats but to assure the president that such blundering would not again afflict his administration. No such serious secret Independent and nonpartisan probe is now taking place after the disaster of the iranian Rescue raid. Just the opposite to intimidate inquiring news men the defense department trotted out an army colonel of undoubted bravery who was not in charge on the ground at desert one and who did not have the com Mand responsibility to decide to abort the Mission to evade questions by recalling past heroics. Worse the Senate armed services com Mittee charged with oversight responsibility in these matters suspended hearings when the executive Branch Drew the veil of secrecy around All facts relevant to an understanding of what went wrong in the raid s planning and  failure of America s military leaders to plan and successfully carry out a crucial military operation is thus being blamed on bad Luck. A Long series of misjudgments poor maintenance faulty weather reporting possible Compromise of intelligence and built in bailouts led to a Likely failure of nerve. All were human errors the actions of men supposedly protecting All our lives but they Are being attributed to gremlins and acts of god. This decision to admit of no mistakes denies president Carter the single useful result of the poorly planned or ill managed Enterprise an understanding of what really went wrong. A time will come for another anti terrorist military action Carter s fear of finding out what broke Down in his Chain of command invites a future failure. By refusing to discover for himself what went wrong in his Only military action car Ter also removes the Chance for a truly non partisan inquiry. As night follows Day the president who follows Carter into office will want a Complete no cover up analysis from the military services and its critics on the aborted raid. Conducted a year late the review will not be As valuable and it will probably be Moro critical of the White House intervention in what should have been tactical military  the Rescue raid postmortem is for Carter or his successor to conduct an other probe looms that deals with policy blunders on the misuse of a military officer in the conduct of foreign affairs and it will be the task of the Senate. The Huyser Mission is a mystery that cries out for congressional investigation. The Carter administration Over the protest of the nato commander Gen. Al Haig. Sent Haig s Deputy. Gen. Robert Huyser to Tehran to advise the iranian military As the Shah was losing  Brzczinski faction in the while House insists that Huyser was dispatched to keep the iranian generals in line for a Possi ble coup to keep Iran in pro Western hands. But the deposed Shah and his friends say just the opposite that the state depart ment wanted Huyser to keep the iranian military from staging any coup because the Carter administration foolishly believed it could do business with Ayatollah Khomeini. Huyser a Good Soldier but an abysmal Choice for a political diplomatic Mission has been saying privately that he was betrayed by the iranian chief of staff. Gener Al Gara Baghi. It May be that the Gullible Carter envoy who was constantly on a Teh ran Washington Telephone line to Brzczinski and to the Deputy Secretary of defense was Cozene by Gara Baghi into blocking a coup by the pro Western Gener als which led to the takeover of Iran by anti american fanatics. Right now the Huyser Mission is being studied in desultory fashion by sen. John Tower a Texas of armed services be cause chairman John Stinnis d-miss., automatically protects All presidents and sen. Henry Jackson d-wash., is disinclined to look into a policy disaster in an election year. The resistance to a probe is fierce but the sore is  has decreed that the hostages in Iran Are no longer to be treated As topic a we shall see whether Waller Cronkite slops the nightly reminder of their Captivity at the conclusion of his newscast. Haying profited from wallowing in our victimization. Carter now seeks to downplay our nation s shame. But two great unanswered questions hover Over his presidency what really Well wrong on the Rescue raid and did Jimmy Carter s personal envoy Slop the iranian armed forces from blocking inc Ayatollah s grab for Power sooner or later Well find out. It would be in the nation s interest to find Oul sooner. New York Tymn the opinion expressed in the columns and car toot on this Pace represent those of to authors a Dart in no Way to be considered Ai representing the views of the Siart and stripes or the United Stales government. William Buckley Oil countries should share peace Burden presidential candidates who want to float proposals Are necessarily inhibited by their probable political Impact. Even if one knows that a particular Man serving let us say As president or As Gover nor will tend to examine a proposal s intrinsic merits without reflection on their Politi Cal effect the chances Are that that Man became governor or president in part be cause an internal Early warning system operates Day and night to guide him. It is sometimes useful if the idea is adventurous. To gel someone else to come out with it. This is what they Call a trial  re spending at the current annual rate about �90 billion for foreign Oil. This is about 10 percent of the value of All the securities traded on the Stock Exchange. Over half of that Money is going to what we Call the persian Gulf Stales plus Libya and , we need to protect the sovereignty of the persian Gulf and the persian Gulf needs us to protect its sovereignly. The trouble is we Are in no position to protect Hal sovereignly because a we have no bases in the area and b we Haven t enough men and material. The time is overdue to share the Cost of he common defense and no arrangement is More poetic than to share the Cost with those countries engaged in gouging us and the rest of the world. Since what we have Here is a diplomatic problem we might agree to use a word older than gouging though someone with a larger inventory of euphemisms than i possess will have to be consulted  presidential candidate would say som Ching along the following lines it is vital that we engage in intensive activity designed to protect the Oil supplies in the persian Gulf which Means also protecting the sovereignty of those countries surrounding the area. Although by no Means should we omit from consideration such robust suppliers As Iraq $770 Mil lion. Kuwait $55 million. Qatar $227 Millionth emirates $1.9 billion and Oman $249 million let us agree thai saudi Arabia $14.5 billion would serve As spokesman for the  relations with the saudis Are based on the strategic interests of both of our countries. The wealth the producing Stales arc amassing will be of Little use to them if their governments Are subverted. And the reserves of Oil on which they sit will be of Little use to the Industrial Powers if they Are transformed into political or even paramilitary weapons by the soviet Union which is As capable of proclaiming thai the liberation elements of saudi Arabia have asked for soviet assistance As it was of saying the same thing about Afghanistan. I shall propose a consortium headed by saudi Arabia of persian Gulf Powers from whom we would expect an annual contribution of $10 billion toward the maintenance of suitable bases in the area. I shall also propose to our allies in Europe that a Mediterranean consortium be established entering on Algeria Wilh Libya As ils principal partner and Wilh Possi ble lies to Nigeria. Those states need the presence of an Allied Fleet in the Mediterranean and an appropriate royally payment per barrel sold might be an approach to a sharing of the defense Burden. Libya might decline to see the advantages in such an arrangement in which Case we shall have to demonstrate those  Here the presidential candidate should pause look Down at the press Section Wink and mutter the Aesop an Mode goes Well in arabian  the press might not Wink Back but its jaw could certainly be counted on to drop in Short ladies and gentlemen the Day has come when the United states Given ils multifarious obligations cannot pay the Cost of keeping the peace out of us Loose change. We need to share the Burden. But with the Burden comes the Only Guaran tee of the survival of National  i swear i d vote for Hal Man. He looks you straight in the Eye when he talks and his thinking is pure As Spring water. Univ try pm