European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes june 1985 columns comments Vosoff on communism coming Back by Russell Baker if you follow the news Only casually you probably think Nicaragua is the greatest problem facing the world there Hast been so much posturing and braying about so Little since that was the year John Kennedy and vice president Richard Nixon managed to spend a big part of an entire presidential Campaign flail ing at each other about Quemoy and everybody remembers Quemoy and i because there int enough space in this column or in this entire for that matter to explain Why the future of humanity Hung on the outcome of the Quemoy Nomatsu you had to be and if you were of you probably cant believe now that you think about it that grown presidential candidates really thought Quemoy and Matsu were you would not have said so at the just As you would not nowadays say to the president and the Congress that being in the final analysis not much More than a poverty stricken strikes you As a problem of overpowering the reason you  have said something similar about Quemoy and Matsu and wont say it now about Nicaragua can be expressed in three words soft on president reagans Case for bankrolling the Effort to overthrow the nicaraguan government is being it int entitled to have Yankee opposition to its existence confined to diplomatic but May just by be subjected to open military assaults mounted by Why justly the soviet Union rarely hesitates to use military Power to thrash its Eastern european clients when they deviate toward the democratic does it in this struggle to save the planets we must not shrink from doing to Moscow what Moscow would do to after nearly a generation of gathering dust in the National soft on communism is being reconditioned for combat in this it is now implicit in much of the criticism mounted against people who deviate from the most Bellicose View of what our foreign policy should it has been present but unspoken in the arguments used to press the Congress to fund the my the weapon whose military value is so dubious that Many congressional Hawks question its it is present but unspoken in attacks on americans who want a More strenuous Effort to restrain the arms race than the presi Dent has it is present but unspoken in the argument that Vietnam was lost by timidity and Dis inform the explanation for the incessant uproar about Nicaragua May be that the presidents party is setting up its potential political opponents for the old soft on communism the papers said the House granting the president million More to carry on his military assault upon Nicaragua marxist was influenced partly by Southern democrats fears that they might be called soft on communism if they voted suspicions that the nicaraguan uproar has More to do with Domestic politics than foreign policy Are intensified by the trifling sums of Money the latest clash Between the presidents party and those opposed to his nicaraguan policy was fought Over the sum of at the Pentagon that the kind of Money that goes for Coffee pots and toilet c new York times splattering a Little red on the right by Art Buchwald when i read that John the alleged soviet was a flaming i immediately called up Bubba who Speaks for the right when Pat Buchanan is How come Walker turned out to be one of your Guys and not one of ours i asked where do you get that stuff Peterson we cant take responsibility for every righting nut in the Hes definitely one of and we dont like it when someone allegedly Sells this country most vital How could you have let it happen Why should we take the blame Fox what Walker supposedly did because you Laid it on All the liberals when the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss were we still get blamed for what they i dont blame Nixon has been painting us red for its about time they got splattered with a Brush of their the Walker family has no connection with the right Wing Peterson you can Tell that to Robert but we Neo socialists Arent buying How Many More spies do the right wingers have hiding in Safe houses around the country i could Tell i was getting to i Over there and punch you in the that the Way All you people behave when faced with treachery in the Why dont you admit you made a mistake by letting Walker into your club i never heard of John Walker or his family until the spy Story then youre twice As dont Tell me the conservatives dont Check the backgrounds of their Mem were a political Why should we give anyone a Security Check aught to come because they could turn out to be do you think we limousine liberals would have let Walker sign up without making sure he want working for the Kremlin Why dont you just come out and admit your people were duped your mistake is that you think because a Guy denounces abortion and the equal rights Amend ment that Hes a 100 percent Loyal i Hope the Walker Case teaches you a what lesson Peterson wanted to that the Guy who screams the loudest against gun control could be the one closest to Why Are you doing this to me every time we came out against the by you said we were on the Kab you claimed anyone who was for the arms talks was a victim of soviet you have coupled people who dont want to go to War Over Nicaragua with the Why  we make you feel bad about John Walker How do we know Walker want one of pre tending to be one of ours because he allegedly did it for Money instead of for Mother dont you we can no longer depend on your people to keep us Safe from youve been infiltrated by the rus skies and until you clean House we cant let you have a monopoly on waving the american How Many More walkers do you have on your Rolls there was a lot of sputtering on the other end of the i never believed youd stoop this dont you have any in not questioning your i and i certainly Don t blame you for what the Walker family is alleged to have but i do have something further to say to whats that dont let it 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