European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes june columns comments Andrew Glass its time Tor to form an elephant command More than 200 years before the birth of a Young Warrior named Hannibal accomplished an incredible feat of military Enterprise by crossing the Alps with a Herd of elephants and giving the romans a Hannibal bold stroke in the second punic War forced the mighty romans to alter their strategy against the carthaginians by creating their own logistics com had they not done roman Power might have the lesson to be Learned from that ancient struggle is As fresh As the daily headlines on terrorism and it is that great Powers must understand what kind of wars they Are fighting and How to prevail in those who fail to discern that the kid napping of american air travellers constitutes nothing less than an act of War de Lude president Reagan had it right when he opened his news conference the other Day by asserting that we Are a nation being attacked by International terrorists who wantonly kill and who seize our innocent citizens As their these Arab warriors have never sought to mask their True even though Many people have trouble recognizing their aim is to destroy hurling those jews who survive that climactic conflict Back into the that Why the first words aired from the cockpit of the seized Twa Airliner were Jerusalem is calling you that claim yourselves to be to the people who surrendered to to Mubarak and Hussein and Iraq to the usurpers of the we say Jerusalem can Only be liberated by the hands of the True believe if in larger is to stand against such then the Pentagon had in carthaginian form an elephant the defense department is chock full of mobility equipment research and development commands and military traffic management commands and the while such High tech stuff might have impressed it Doest suffice in Anthony Lewis flight 1965 today Antiterrorist whats needed is a crack team that could have swooped quickly into shooting out the tires on the Twa Jet while Only two terrorists were still whats needed Are planners within can execute a Well publicized air raid on Beirut International one which turns the runways into heaps of rubble on which jets cannot since terrorists fight their wars by manipulating the particularly Antiterrorist warriors need to know How to fight Back by using the same the presidents adept performance before the press Doest make up for the failure of his administration to implement coherent plans to combat such incidents and surely there will be More of them tend to be seen in Isola but they in integral parts of an Overall Challenge that requires an effective it does no Good to have two million Well equipped americans under arms when such weaponry is useless in the True contest facing the within the Only Secretary of state George Shultz understands that the United states must launch preemptive strikes against terrorists even when inno cent lives Are put at so his counsel Hast been across the tech nolo a driven generals have not demonstrated a capacity to execute the kind of Small unit actions required to Deal with organized terror in today when a cockpit warning Light leads a Crew to abandon a helicopter in the iranian desert there were no other evident signs of a malfunction As happened during the 1980 hostage Rescue then some thing has gone awfully sour in the Way we train and prepare our its understandable that Pentagon plan ners who came of age during the Noble crusade against the Axis Powers prefer to fight Battles according to those rules of yet we live in a time when such rules no longer sooner or if the new Rome is to make those facts must be c new York times news service israeli occupation precipitated shiites turn to terrorism once terrorists have taken hos tages and hidden them in an Urban set there is Little the strongest Power can do to Force their so even super Hawks have effectively conceded in the Beirut hostage Henry Kissinger warns against humiliation and says the United states must take an ominous and Strong but when asked what exactly he would he sit be not rattle the Given the difficulties after the the emotions aroused by the Beirut situation should make us focus on How to prevent such outrages in to his president Reagan has done All the specific Steps he announced at his press conference last week were of a preventive for example warning against Slack Security at the Athens in an age of the worlds response will necessarily consist in consider Able part of physical Security measures More and we shall feel nostalgic for the free Dom of movement we used to take for but there is a much deeper level at which governments must try to prevent that is at the level of politics politics in the profound sense of under standing what drives human consider the shiite moslem of they Are the country largest population dominant in the they used to be a politically submissive accepting a role subordinate to Lebanon christians and sunni mos but the Khomeini revolution in Iran moved them to fundamentalism and de mands for that was the sensitive situation of changing political and religious dynamics when Ariel Sharon took israeli forces into Lebanon three years a Quick strike against the Plo would have been one occupation was shiites who welcomed Israel As a deliverer from palestinian Power came inevitably to hate the three years of occupation radicalized lebanese shiites and turned them into fierce enemies of which they had not their guerrilla attacks on israeli soldiers were met by Stern retaliation rough sweeps through mass arrests of shiite detention on sushi the Cycle of hatred that arose during the occupation is essential background to the Beirut terrorists demand for release of More than 750 lebanese still held by of course the history does not justify the terrorists cowardly but it tells us something about the political wis Dom required of leaders in today like it or we Are in a time when groups once submissive resent their sub Mission and feel entitled to seek Justice by the lebanese shiites Are a prime even shiite moderates speak of their feeling of and increasing numbers Are drawn to hatred and outsiders cannot prevent such a revolutionary Awakening or control but they can be aware of and try to avoid exacerbating the feelings of that essential political Wisdom is what Sharon or rather swept for Israel had experts who Well understood the lebanese shiites and the urgent need for Good relations with but in his overweening wanted to create a Lebanon ruled by an israeli backed Christian he Cost Israel and the United the Folly of ignoring political Reali ties in South Lebanon continued after Sha Ron was forced out As defense the present israeli government does appreciate the importance of repairing relations with the but it still held on to those 766 in violation not Only of International Law but of common perhaps it hoped their eventual release would be a dramatic gesture to the now it is too late for another current example of political Folly in the Middle Small but telling in its is the dispute Between Egypt and Israel Over the Taba Border prime minister Peres understands that Good relations Between moderate states Are far More important than a few Hundred Yards of but his righting colleagues Are blocking a in the Middle East today everyone who wants a measure of stability in life has to think All the time about political Conse that requires concern for the moderate it also requires an Effort to reach out to those who Burn with Indus to make them feel that there is Hope not in violence but in one sad result of a Beirut hostage crisis is to make us think that political Effort is useless in the Middle the opposite is violent in a violent re quire greater Effort to understand the forces of change and move them into the channels of c 1985 new York times Newi service