European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes sunday March 30, 1986 William Buckley . Should declare All out War on Nicaragua president Reagan gave a compelling speech ear Lier this month. Moreover it was a speech that in the judgment of this listener can truly be termed prophetic. By this is meant that the Fate of Central America very Likely rests on what happens in Nicaragua or rather to Nicaragua the Fate of Central America almost certainly will determine the Fate of Mexico and the Fate of Mexico can affect the United states directly in ways far More serious than any threatened by Kaiser Wilhelm Adolf Hitler Kim in Sung or to Chi Minn and we went to War against All four. But it s precisely those who get the president s message who Are dismayed by what he proceeds to ask for. With reluctance one turns to quote from one of his professional critics but Haynes Johnson of the Washington Post after a few paragraphs of anti Reagan push  said it in language for which Reagan s friends have no answer facile or strained. Here is what he said assume for the Sake of argument that Reagan s analysis about the supposed grave threat from Central America is Correct. If so his proposed remedies expressed passionately in numerous speeches throughout the five years of his presidency have been a dismal failure. The threat at least As he describes it has grown Ever More dangerous. By Reagan s terms members of Congress should not be debating whether to make a most minor switch of funds in the defense department s accounting books. They should be voting on whether to blockade Nicaragua interdict its sea and air lanes and prepare for introduction of . Military Force to safeguard Ameri can citizens and the hemisphere. They ought to be asked to Send in the  begin with the last Point. Reagan has no appetite to use the marines in Nicaragua and neither do the american people. But we Are entitled to ask this question namely is the use of the marines justifiable other than to defend . Territory we did Send them to Lebanon not Long ago and the casualty list was a great Shock one Kamikaze terrorist 241 dead. The United states Post Vietnam is a very different country from the United states that thrilled at the thought of sending marines to the shores of Tripoli. But of course it is at this Point that the president and the entire country need to give thought to the role of the military. That role is to prevent the need for fighting in one s own country. It is for that reason that we fought in Odd places like Pantelleria before graduating to Italy an d then to Normandy Paris and finally Berlin. Now Reagan s difficulty is that he describes exactly a situation in which the use of american military Force is relevant but draws Back dogmatically at the use of David Broder american Force. Note dogmatically which is different from the arguments that the contras can do it by them selves. But if we have Learned anything from the experience of the past few years it is that the contras can most emphatically not do it on their own. What they can Man age on their own is the kind of desultory terror for which americans have very Little appetite. The contras plus 100 million american dollars can hardly be expected to countervail the hundreds of Mil Lions of dollars and the advanced weaponry with which the soviet Union via Cuba is nourishing a dictatorship growing every Day in sophistication. Expecting the con tras to depose Ortega in Nicaragua is on the order of appropriating $100 million for Alpha 77 and dispatching it to displace Fidel Castro. I hate to say it but if i were a congressman i would write a letter to president Reagan and i d say sorry. Extremely sorry precisely because i think your analysis of the threat posed is exactly Correct. But one band Aid in t going to Stop that bloody Gusher. You come to Congress or. President and announce that you Are ending All diplomatic relations with Nicaragua and that the evidence is before you to support a request for a declaration of War. That declaration of War does t mean we have to Send nuclear weapons to Managua but it does put it out in the open the United states As guarantor against foreign aggression in this hemisphere in t going to permit in Nicaragua what we permitted in Cuba. Then let the debate rage. You give us your evidence and let the people who want to tolerate Ortega As they wanted to tolerate to Chin Minh 11,000 Miles away present their evidence. That is the time for a decision that accommodates your apocalyptic rhetoric. I should say your prop Erly apocalyptic  c Universal press Syndicate look out Here comes the Canadian caper watch out you Liberal Lap dogs of latin american leftists. Your Days Are numbered. The Canadian caper is about to begin. This column has just obtained exclusive rights to leaked memos from top presiden tial strategist Patrick the enforcer Buckshot. Along with the previously announced franchise for leaks from demo cratic political guru Padraic the magi Cian Cardwell we can now guarantee that regular readers will receive the latest in Side dope from both parties. Here is the new Buckshot memo to re publican National chairman Frank j. Fahrenkopf or dear Frank the Boss and everyone else thinks the Contra Campaign was a smash Success in the dimensions we have Dis cussed. Regardless of what happens Down in Nicaragua and frankly my dear who gives a Damn we have succeeded in our main objective of identifying on last week s House Roll Call dozens of democrats who can be tagged As Squishy soft on Sandinia tas. By the time we Are finished with them those wimps will wish they had stayed with Reagan and the Freedom fighters. I know that some of the other political consultants on your payroll Are arguing that the whole Nicaragua Issue is Way off the voters screen that we ought to be talking about Prosperity a booming Stock Market declining deficits and a new round of tax cuts. I m not knocking any of those issues Frankie but when those kids have been around politics As Long As i have they la understand the lesson i Learned from my first Boss Richard Nixon. In always said that you can win a presidential election on Hope but the Only Way you win an off year congressional Campaign is to scare the voters silly. He put it a Little stronger than that but i Don t want to give More ammunition to the Damn Washington Post in Case they get hold of this memo by the time we have gone the full five months on our planned Contra Campaign the american people will identify the sandinista As the source of everything from commie subversion to teen age preg Nancy and inflamed Gums. The mistake the democrats make Man i love their stupidity is to think that Well Call off the ads after last week s vote. Their jaws will drop when they see the next round. I think you read the scripts for red hordes at the Border and one bad Apple spoils the hemisphere but the finished films Are eight or 10 times tougher than just the words. Wait till you see the next and. Charlton Heston narrates the reenactment of Teddy Roosevelt s charge up san Juan Hill. It ends with the line of course Teddy had one advantage Over president Reagan. He did t have to worry about the democrats at his  i am also sending Over a tape of a musical group we re considering using on the re stations. I like the Lyric if mos cow was meant to run those lands Down in the Sun god would have Given them parkas and Vodka instead of  i think this one will play with the kids. The one worry i be got is that Dick Wirthlin s polls show the Issue doing much better in the South than in the North. That s the Price we pay i guess for emphasizing the tide moving up from Nicara Gua. But i Don t want those so and sos up North to think they re getting off easy. That s Why we want to introduce the Ca Nadian caper. Bill Casey cleared the plan with Brian Mulroney when he was Down Here from Ottawa last week. Frankly i Don t under stand Why the canadians think they be gotta have a government of their own up there but if they be got one i m glad it s led by Mulroney instead of that creep tru Deau. He got right into the spirit of the game As soon As Casey and i outlined it to him. In late Spring Mulroney will announce that he has discovered the sandinista Are causing the acid rain problem. He likes that a lot better than trying to convince the Boss that american smokestacks Are poisoning his lakes. Hell Send the Moun ties out to Hunt Down the sandinista pol Luters but of course they won t find them. In september Reagan will ask for an emergency $100 million to defend our unarmed Canadian Border against sandinista pollution and to mount aggressive surveil Lance raids on suspected sandinista Cen ters around Hudson Bay. Casey has a Guy ready to testify that sandinista is the Spanish Indian word for acid rain the democrats will split three ways the pacifists will say Canada is no threat. The environmentalists will say it s a diversion. And the protectionists will argue that Canadian Timber imports Are a far worse menace and try to turn it into a Tariff Battle. We figure that there Are at least 18 democratic held congressional districts be tween the Ohio River and the Soo where. The incumbents can be beaten if they vote against the Canadian caper. The ads in their districts will emphasize the threat of the football Loving Midwest being inundated by hordes of red faced refugee hockey nuts from Saskatchewan. That ought to get their minds off of farm prices and the rest of that democratic barnyard material. Let s Roll. Yours Bucky. C Washington Post the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of he authors and Are in no was to be considered As representing Hie views of the stars and stripes or the United states govern ment