European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes May columns comments William Buckley if chairman Mao was a whats Daniel Ortega my colleague the syndicated columnist Joseph Sobran apropos the whole Pitburg what if Daniel Ortega and his sandinista were nazis it is a riveting it informs us deeply about the moral scramble of our in which As we struggle to remember How hideous was we struggle equally to forget How hideous is for the Calm revelations of the past few years concerning the cultural revolution in maos when 80 top journalists went into Shanghai in 1972 with president there was something in the order of elation we All in the great Mao Tielung was a he was a Tough but you needed a Tough Man to create Mao Fin route to China we All read the glowing accounts of maos written by Ross Ter Rill of Harvard and published in the Atlantic Theodore the distinguished american journalist and sin Logist who was an Early enthusiast for shakes nowadays his head and we did not recon just How bad it it was that kill categorical imprisonments of everyone associated with the old communist a de spoliation of College burned anti intellectualism All the details arc painstakingly collected in the Melicue resourceful Book of Fox China alive in the bitter we of the regime of Deng who has attempted to Institute eco nomic and political altering the totalitarian nature of life in but there is no sense of detectable among americans who visit either at what happened in China under the Banner of Denis old Boss and Mentor Mao or of Denis other Chou we treat it an unpleasant about which we do not choose to it is inconceivable that any american travelling in China would exhibit moral hesitation at fraternizing with surviving members of the old those who had a hand in implementing the bolshevik All but inconceivable that any american staying at Home would loudly protest such fraternization As a be trayal of the victims of the regime of Mao tse the great but All this is also although perhaps a Little less of the soviet is it not two rulers the head of the soviet Union had been the counterpart of Himmler in but about Andropov we were All tacitly urged to speak in civil accents and of course there was considerable dismay when president Anthony Lewis Nicaragua is just like vie that Vietnam denial Reagan elected not to attend his although he did drop by the soviet embassy to write his signature into the official Book of How come this disparity in How we feel about evil regimes indistinguishable from one another probably the difference is not much More complicated than that the soviet Union has the if the soviet Union elected to do there would be a world conceivably the terminal experience of the planet Well suppose that Hitler had got himself a which As a matter of fact he came very close to imagine that that bomb had exploded Over Liverpool in the Early Spring of 1945 exit Liverpool by the four Little baby suppose Hitler had then said that the next bomb would fall on and the third on Paris unless we came to terms with what would have happened precisely just As Japan reacted to so would London have reacted to so Hitler lived on to approximately the same age As and and dying a natural death in there were jews left in the concentration Camps when hitlers bomb ended world War so he polished them and of course continued to torture and kill and otherwise persecute any even As Stalin but before he he had amassed in Germany the equivalent nuclear throw weight amassed by the soviet  our diplomats be attending anniversaries of hitlers Rise to even As they in anniversaries of the october revolution one fears that is the that considerations of self concern govern our moral evidently we need to defeat a totalitarian Power before we can Settle Down to despising if Daniel Ortega wore a Swastika on his the liberals in Congress would be calling for an american expeditionary Force to crush As it he is relatively Universal press Syndicate Reagan blinked on the War Over military spending from his first Day in office president Reagan has pressed two policies above All others higher Mili tary lower recently the two confronted each eyeball to in the mind of the presi Reagan blinked on military it was a fundamental change of and an Aston Ishing Given the Fervour of reagans past commit ment to higher military his military program from 1981 on called for annual spending increases of 6 to 8 percent above last at the urging of Senate he agreed with the greatest reluctance to Cut that Back to 3 when the Senate Defeated the 3 percent on May Reagan called it an irresponsible when the Senate narrowly approved a budget with a Zero growth for the military beyond the presi Dent said that was a Sweet he said Senate leaders had promised to consider More military Money if necessary in the but that could not conceal the extent of his what we see in this event is confirmation of the reality principle in american fantasies run Ronald reagans Cen trial to his policies Over four has been that a smaller tax base would support vast increases in Mili tary the particular Brand of Wishful thinking called sup ply Side economics claimed that lower tax rates would produce More Revenue As the Economy there were record Federal budget deficits exceeding in the Reagan years the total from George washing tons administration through Jimmy then we were told that the deficits did not really Donald Secretary of the Treasury in the first Reagan term and now White House chief of sold that Patent reality caught up this year in the form of Public the Public no longer believed that the deficit would magically go away or didst it especially did not believe that the deficit could be brought Down without either a hold on defense spending or higher that political reality moved the Senate Republic notably the 22 up for reelection next they did not want to run on a record of newly raised or of escalating they effectively forced the president to make the Choice he had been avoiding All these the consequences of what has happened Are going to be very severe for the armed forces of the United they have shaped programs that require real increases of 8 percent a year to to Cut Back to Zero will produce enormous were going to end up with an ill balanced James the former Secretary of said in a conversation shortly after the Senate vote for a budget with Zero military that belief is widely and the reason for it is the Reagan administration has started buying Many new weapons once a new system tank or whatever is just about impossible to local in effect the local Mili tar Industrial Are too in the Early years of a Sharp military buildup of the Reagan Schlesinger one enters into these they fall due just As the resources cease to increase or even so you have to How do the services squeeze they Cut Down on spare ammunition the very things All the experts agree should not be and they stretch out procurement of so the unit Cost of each weapon goes up but none is Schlesinger has been warning for years that increasing the military budget in a Rush would produce a backlash after a leaving the armed forces More strapped for funds than they he favored a steadier buildup and opposed reagans 1981 reduction of the tax which he thought made shrinkage of resources for defense the interesting political question now is what will happen to Caspar the defense Secretary who has presided Over the spending he has Al Lowed the separate services to follow their wish lists of new with no effective control Over duplication and no Central at the end of the Binge we Are Likely to have forces less More More Wein Berger May pay the but after it was his president who urged him o198s new York times Syndicate