European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes april 1986 columns memory is perhaps fhe Only answer by Sydney Schanberg my father grew up when his hard work brought him to Middle age and to a place where he was no longer his memory of those difficult years made him very Good at helping others who were Down on their he took care of his family but he didst forget these thoughts have rushed upon me because he died a Little Over a week ago and when a Parent we Grope for in the private Days following his the outside world murmuring for attention was also discussing memory and Elie our teacher of the a child of the concentration was telling the president this is Why of whom you have tried to teach their contemporaries How to build on How to invent Hope in a world that offers How to proclaim Faith to a generation that has seen it shamed and and i we that memory is the perhaps the Only speaking of the concentration Wiesel said i was i was there when american liberators and they gave us Back our and what i Felt for them then nourishes me to the end of my we Are grateful to this the greatest democracy in the the freest nation in the the moral sometimes presidents and policy caught and distracted by their geopolitical balancing seem to lose the memory of the great strength that is derived from being a moral even As Elie Wiesel was trying to persuade this presi Dent that to visit a German military cemetery where is soldiers Are buried is to forsake another debate Over a More recent the War in Indochina was sharing the in this debate Many participants have failed to in clude the strength and authority that we can possess As a moral they choose instead to Frame the lesson of Vietnam they see Hawks versus they see the press and Congress in combat against the White they squint so close at these perceived combatants that our larger history is blurred and because i reported from i have heard often the complaint that the american press was More critical of Washington than we were of the communist super that we Tore Down our own some say this Means we Lack it is True by and the press in Indochina wrote stories critical of the american policy it was not because reporters were it was because reporters saw America slipping toward the habits of the totalitarian Powers whose activities we consider less than what we did was to hold this country to a greater Stan since our government says that it stands on higher moral ground than the communist that it is differ it must behave not just say that is the Standard by which the press measured its the humanitarian tradition in the United states is not a not the result of an advertising so when we leave the humanitarian Factor out of our foreign when we use a Small such As for an imagined larger geopolitical purpose without Stop Ping to consider the potential consequences to the Cam Bodian we debase that it does no Patri Otic service to Overlook such failures on the it robs us of the strength of a moral we Are right to expect More of our government than we expect of we Are not terribly surprised when Moscow Rolls its tanks into the capital of a Small neighbor but we Are rightly anguished when our policies falter and we begin to imitate our totalitarian it is not logical to justify a misguided policy by saying that by its must Bear the Burden of being judged in a literal sense it is not it is a it makes us less efficient than totalitarian states but in the end it is a fundamental this is not to suggest that we must be militarily weaker or in any Way just that we must As Elie Wiesel implored the to do something to find another new York times Syndicate fiasco exposes Reagan smoke machine by Jim Fain Ronald reagans monumental hype works has blown itself apart with a Gaffe that might have boggled Kafka the projected laying of a Wreath at Germany bit Burg the Detonator was Michael the Slick ringmaster who helped reelect the president by chalking where he should stand on Korea 38th selecting the spot with the right lighting for the histrionics on the Normandy timing the Shower of confetti on the grand of opry stage with Roy Acuff at the zippers Side and Lee Greenwood belting out god bless the Deavers German fiasco was compounded by the fact Reagan had declined to visit a concentration Camp on the ground he wanted to Bury the past and insisted few germans now alive could even remember the maybe leaders who live by symbolism Are destined to perish by the greeks understood How hubris does in an overconfident Deaver seems to have been looking at bows when he should have been inspecting there were those who relished his Washington is that kind of but the episode evoked one of history darkest nothing about hitlers bully the Waffen could Ever be in any fingering a culprit is not the the fact that Reagan is Overly dependent on script and pro Ducer does not make his writers and choosers of camera angles the heavies when things go like any presi he is where the Buck he can work out of this mess with the right presumably the White House will get things sorted out and move on to More substantive the real question is Why is symbolism supreme Why has illusion become the new reality Why has style so replaced substance that some now argue Only a Candi Date with acting skills can be elected to our highest office hype has been the Reagan with a huge staff focused totally on making those 20to 40second to bites convey just the chosen message night after the Washington Post gave frontage play to a Story on White House staffer Pat Buchanan pushing for a Reagan to speech on Deaver and political adviser de Rollins were said to be statecraft in 1985 has boiled Down to stage we conduct our National affairs through a series of photo opportune the publicity Battle being waged in Washington Over Nicaragua is an its so far out no one would believe it As a said Michael the president of the United states has pulled out All the stops in his Effort to overthrow a foreign government and that government is openly lobbying the Reagan even invoked the who promptly renounced the role of More than the million at Issue probably has been spent to stage the publicity so this giant factory of illusion has worked for Reagan enabling him to talk Tough while acting preach conservatism while financing the country with history biggest borrowing Binge and profess compas Sion while increasing if Pitburg cemetery gets enough people thinking about his wizard of of smoke machine and what it gets them looking beyond the photo opportunities to what actually is being said and the pain of that fiasco will not have been entirely c 1985 Cox news today crossword Hicks 5 i60tta Ltd Goj 608ackw by Eugene Sheffer across 1 impish kid 5 binary base 8 lose hair 12 puerto 13 Alley 14 Vena vein 15 article 16 chemical suffix 17 Oklahoma City 18 waiter French style 20 taper 22 additionally 23 my party 24 departed 27 terrifying 32 Spanish 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