European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes june 1985 columns comments James Kilpatrick Eye for Eye strategy May dissuade terrorists Back in the summer of kidnappers in Tangier seized an elderly american Ion the responsible party was Well known a Brig and chieftain named Ahmed Ben Moham med an enemy of the Sultan of at that very moment the Republican National convention was meeting in Theodore Roosevelt was nominated by he dispatched an ultimatum to be delivered in Morocco and read to the convention Perdicaris or Vaisuli dead Perdicaris was there is but one Way to Deal with Ter it is to apply the ancient Law spelled out in exodus let us match life for Eye for tooth for hand for foot for burning for wound for Stripe for to be that when the Twa flight 847 terrorists killed their first and tossed his body from the the israelis had chosen one shiite moslem at random from the 700 they held As that this randomly chosen prisoner had been put to death at once by firing and that proof of the in the form of a to were shown to the and suppose this act of summary retribution were accompanied by a threat for every american Passen Ger you kill we will kill 10 of your such a coldblooded policy would set off George will cries of protest in every humanitarian the Constitution does not apply in but we would hear that the proposed executions would violate due process of Law they would be cruel and unusual they would amount to sex Post Facto we would be lowering ourselves to the level of the we would be All of but if such a policy were adopted and and the Pool of moslem or palestinian prisoners held it just might put an end to the kind of savagery we witnessed with the make no mistake we find ourselves in a virtual state of War is inherently War is inescapably during world War the germans indiscriminately bombed targets in England the allies retaliated with the saturation bombing of German innocent and Uno fending human beings As innocent and Uno fending As american passengers on a Jet plane died in those raids of 40 years the policy i am advocating could not be based upon there Are ruses in to be and it might be possible for a few actors and a special effects Crew to fake a movie of a multiple such a hoax might work Only trading a real life for a life and an Eye for an Eye would have meaning for terrorists the next other measures ought to be taken the United states could refuse Sovereign Protection to citizens who Fly on air lines with inadequate Security in the matter of the Twa affairs we have to suspect bribery of Security screener who let the weapons but bribery can be detected and it would not be it would merely be a at such airports As Athens for every Pas Senger to be strip searched and every bag opened and repacked under a guards 84t watchful the situation cannot be permitted to Drift terrorism in terrorism in terrorism in Rome it has become a Way of Perdicaris or Vaisuli dead Teddy Roosevelt had the right idea 80 years c Universal press America lacks political will to combat terrorism kit or a i fort once again the name of this army with its special resonance As Home of the special has risen to the surface of the nations As the hijackers took twas aircraft to elite elements of fort Braggs forces took off for the Eastern because of these special forces and other elite this base is a reminder of the constant War against America that americans Only intermittently the special forces suffered disproportionately and undeservedly from the Vietnam John Ken Nedy expressed his admiration for elitism and his in Terest in unconventional warfare by making the Green Beret a Symbol of but the intellectuals who followed in Kennedy Slipstream shed their convictions if they had such when they lost their they had and even the rhetoric that underlay Kennedy revitalization of the special we shall go any Bear any pay any Price in a twinkling they be came disparages of the rhetoric in two twin of at fort they keep the flame that his sycophants some mesmerized by the lessons of As they choose to misunderstand regard the special forces As a fuse that leads to an explosive involvement of conventional the theory is that Kennedy misplaced Confidence in counterinsurgency put America on the Slippery slope into the indo China these same americans continue to re Gard the special forces As the thin end of the Large wedge of the men in the ranks of the special forces have a dramatically different and almost prosaic Conception of their they trained and equipped among other High violence their primary which keeps them Busy around the is Lon term and Novio it is teaching internal defense to third world nations under founded in the first special forces unit was trained for sabotage operations in but it fought its fiercest Battle near the problem has always been to match the special forces competence to a mis today the focus is on Mats military training l earns that Are conducting training around the world serving As Force multipliers for the if special forces Are successful in on tenth of their training efforts probably a couple of croissants amp some possibly see Beirut and they do much better than it is a bargain at the which is on tenth of one percent of the defense army officers know that joining the special forces takes them off the army traditional career perhaps by Are acquainted with and not sufficiently schooled in the arts of bureaucracy for today As department supporter of special forces Rin my a Iong of preferring people like me Pope and Burnside before stumbling upon the Grants and Sherman who win the the special forces have High for two Many Are volunteers four times they have volunteered for the for airborne Tor the special forces and for some special such As underwater operations or free fall they know they May be As in that opera Tion is still paying incalculable dividends in As one Green Beret puts a tank Driver at fort knows that he is part of general deterrence but that he will not see action unless there is a major some of fort Bragg s units know they May be winging off to Cyprus at the first word of there Are three aspects of antiterrorism pre when prevention has decisions must be taken and generally by other to make Rescue even remotely if the tires of twas Jet had been shot Flat when it first landed m before the two terrorists acquired armed help ers and flew on to a Safe Haven in there might have Deen a moment in which the Delta Force from fort Bragg could have been As for we have the necessary military we Nave the requisite information regarding appropriate targets syrian belonging to a nation that is n this sense it could Stop much of the Lebanon based of l t0 we Lack at least we have will to it is not the Mili terrorists throw Down gauntlets to run t us has to ho6 that they run out of c Wathington Pott