European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes May columns William Buckley Nuernberg and making moral decisions the Pitburg visit leaves a very Long All of it conducive to useful among other on that Loy Alty of the military that can be said to transcend loyalty to civil the government of Adolf Hitler was Legal if we define Legal in terms of the positive it was in other respects never not if in the term Legal there inheres something More merely than de Facto control of a we struggled with that one at remember there we reasoned from the particular to the this is a practice not encouraged by Legal who wrote into the Constitution that there shall be no punishment for sex Post Facto put you dont get tried today for serv ing Beer to a minor last when serving Beer to a minor was at we struggled with something called aggression against we reasoned that there has got to be a Law somewhere that says you among other take 6 million jews who have committed no offence whatever and liquidate so we hauled up a dozen top faced them Down with some Tough and hanged to be we contaminated the whole exercise by accepting As fellow judges soviet officials who would not have hesitated to kill a million even As they had not hesitated in killing a million if Stalin had simply ordered a Point was a Point with some be cause Only a fortnight ago we were taking the position that no Soldier who consented to serve in the Waffen is a Soldier he was a and for that reason the argument went no official should visit a graveyard in which Are included the remains of some of those although the objectors to the Pitburg visit were the Point they raised is not without it has to of with the higher and most higher for most Are involved in some Way with for that James wat who is chief of naval wrote a spirited letter recently to the Edi Tor of the los Angeles objecting to the implications of a provocative Story that had been published in the its flavor can be got from the headline Star wars called Carl Rowan bombing blamed on of religious Faith at the Story spoke of John chairman of the joint chiefs of and of and of other prominent officials who have in Public circumstances professed their Faith in it Drew attention to a fortnightly prayer breakfast held at the attended by those officers who wish to attend it quoted an Anonymous Chap lain As Many of the meetings religious in but the Robert was on the one hand anxious to relay that the religious exercises did not mean very but to Point out that they were in some Way oriented toward Public for Watkins was quoted As believing that Star wars is a morally sound there Are of course differences of opinion on the matter of the provenance of moral and no doubt wat Kins is explicitly guided by his belief in but you have the coincidence that those whose anxiety about separation of Church and state extends to worrying about generals who profess religious convictions Are in most the same Folk who applaud the Bishops when they con Vene to in that a nuclear arse to the extent that it exists because it might be is Watkins takes a View one would think would commend itself to those with the faintest grasp of right and namely that it is More nearly right than wrong to use bombs in order to kill other instead of to kill people which is the Point of Star of in an Ideal those Hitler took into the is would have risen against the some germans in fact and july 20 the Day in 1944 they tried to assassinate Hitler ought to be a part of Germany sacred in the Ideal people say no to an invitation to join the in an Ideal they say no to say no to say no to Gorba Pitburg causes us All to consider these another reason to be grateful for the Universal press Syndicate thanks of is learning to hate greed Ulvi it in his message to Congress in january Franklin Roosevelt said we have earned the hatred of entrenched when president who likes to quote Roosevelt when it is convenient returned to Washington to find his 1986 budget in he might have said the people have Learned to hate newly entrenched almost nothing that the Congress has done during his recent tour of Europe is Likely to bother Reagan Hoosig More than the fact that the Republican controlled sen ate has voted not to give the Pentagon a Dollar More than what is necessary to cover that is a shocking blow to a president whose grand plan for rearming America not Long ago included a 6 percent increase above members of Congress Tell me that their constituents Are fed up with stories of frauds and ripoffs by giant defense and the people Are demanding that the Congress do what civilians in the defense depart ment and the office of management and budget have refused to do crack Down on the defense cheats by holding Back on Senate minority Leader Robert discussing his mail and Telephone Calls with said the endless series of horror stories on inexcusable Over costing of commonplace tools and condoned by the is eroding the National consensus for a Strong and adequate the Faith of american taxpayers in the management of Dod has been badly Byrd cited a letter from a Man in White Sulphur about fraud in the this is the Man it is Outra and the american people resent it very the childrens defense fund issued a report recently that included the kind of facts that have outraged so Many it reported that an average working children and a salary of in 1983 paid More Federal taxes than general Mobil and combined paid in Federal income not Only will the Pentagon be deprived of billions of but the Public will demand that one tax Reform be a minimum tax on some including senators who voted to give the Pentagon Zero growth above Are now expressing concern that the backlash to greed inspired corporate scams May grow so Large As to Cut defense spending below what is the sponsors of one of Thtree democratic budget alternatives now scheduled to be placed before Congress say they will Call for appropriations of 1 percent above inflation for fiscal dont want to Send the wrong message to on 8aid one but the in h l Ven e mood of the even democrats May not be Able to get the majority to accept even a 1 percent there is Hitchcock an irony in the fact that no lec Tures about the wastefulness or the perils of the arms race were altering the american will to spend whatever it said m Nelmary to meet the s but american weapons suppliers themselves news America Syndicate