European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday april 1, 1986 fcb Meihs William Safire Reagan s foreign policy has two immediate goal the Reagan administration foreign policy regional division has to immediate personal objects to bring Down the totalitarian regimes of Moa mar Kheda by and Daniel Ortega. But no serious foreign policy can be based on personal distaste of individual leaders or on the supposed psycho logical need to stand tall. Let us stamp the emerging policy with the imprimatur of the conceptual framework ers Union. In the Mediterranean the purpose of our diplomatic military pressure is to demonstrate that terrorism has a Price and that the free world s superpower is now ready to use its muscle in suppressing aggression against . Citizens and interests. The military response we chose makes the most of our military technology s superiority and the Issue we selected the right of innocent passage on the High seas gives us the moral and Legal High ground. _ in Central America our goal is not merely to resist further subversion of nations in this hemisphere by forces supported by the soviet Union but to Roll Back the intolerable gains of recent years that clearly endanger free Dom in the americas. President Reagan prefers to make the most of the willingness of anti communist nicaraguans to do the necessary fighting and dying themselves we do not want to find ourselves years from now looking for ways to Nicaragua Nize the struggle. The denominator common to our policy in these regions is not sphere of influence Libya is outside both superpowers spheres nor ideology khad Afy though so Viet armed is not a communist nor willingness to com Mit . Sea and air forces Nicaragua s Basic resources Are less vulnerable than Libya s to removal by surgical air strikes. The Central theme of the Reagan policy confronts this Paradox most americans do not want their country pushed around but Are unwilling to suffer the televise agonies of sacrifice unless invaded. That Confluence of contradictions indicates that in Case of violent acts against its citizens or of violent acts against its National interests or of threats to subvert the governments of allies the United states will strike Back on a schedule of its choosing and in a Way that presses its advantages in economic Power and military technology retaining popular support at Home by avoiding As much As possible the expenditure of . Lives. I think that s the Reagan  that is hardly the Way he would enunciate it one always enunciates Doc Trines because it leaves out the newly evenhanded revulsion at dictator of left and right worse it dribbles off in a pragmatic ending that jingles would Call impish War mongering. But such is the pattern of behaviour that emerges after William Buckley terrible internal arguments following years of Meek acceptance of bloody provocation by terrorists and a play it Safe disgraceful refusal to make an election Issue out of opposition to sandinista. And it is the in practice predictability of a pattern enunciated or not that makes doctrine. The strength of the Reagan doctrine is the Way a recognized willingness to use Power makes it less necessary to use Power. Its Short fun weakness is its invitation to test ing. Dictator Ortega is not As blundering As tip o Neill thinks when he launches a preemptive strike across the Honduras Border to Knock out the contras before they Are re equipped. The Managua mauler knows that Reagan critics will transform themselves into instant Parrot s beak Nixon  legitimizing an incursion into another country by the contras use of a privileged  he knows too that Reagan will prevail in both Senate and House the sandinista had to strike before the doctrine got rolling. In the same Way khad Afy is More methodical than  in drawing his line of death far out to sea claim ing International Waters As his own. His four major Oil loading terminals Marsa Albreda Ras manuf is Sider and Armand Hammer s Zvetina Are on the Sands of the Gulf of Sidra. After the next terrorist spectacular those lonely Seaside terminals could be taken out and the eco nomic Backbone of Libya would be broken instantly. No Oil no Money no Power no wonder he wants that body of water off limits to unfriendly Craft. No card carrying conceptual Frame worker can be unaware of the 1888 dictum of Benjamin Harrison in the most corrupt presidential Campaign of our history we americans have no commission from god to police the  the Reagan doctrine however Hesi Tant about taking unpopular pain answers Freedom and dignity Are our Brothers and we Are our Brothers keeper. C new York times society has the right to protect itself from aids it s changed the Doc was talking while cleaning the Needle with the cortisone for my ailing coccyx. It in t the Way it used to be and that s Good  he spoke of a Bachelor . Friend a swinger and now when he s got the lady into his apartment at night or himself into hers the conversation goes something like this a i had a test just week before last regular physical you know and i thought you d want to know that i Don t have cd i Don t have aids i Don t have herpes i suppose he goes on to say he has lots of testosterone but no has set himself up my Doc says so that he can go on to say a do you hoho to have any problems i ought to know about and it is reported such exchanges Are done quite candidly and in a spirit of reciprocal interests served she does t want to be contaminated and neither does he and they size up each other s disposition to honesty and Candor some time before they end up in the bedroom. May be bad for spontaneous Romance said the Doc sliding the Needle into my nether Region but it s a lot better for  and what do you know the very next Day the new York times reports that the City s aids watchers say that the disease is leveling off. By this is meant that it is not progressing geometrically. The spokesman for the doctors group put it this Way that whereas the number of aids patients in new York City had been doubling every 12 months now they Are doubling every 20 months which is certainly an improvement. What it suggests is that the kind of conversations discussed by my Friendly doctor Are also being had Between homosexuals and presumably Between drug addicts who share Needles. And this is also Good news but we Are left without a Public policy for handling the difficult people and these Are defined simply As those who have aids but who nevertheless continue to contaminate others either by failing to take proper Prechuk Nus  to disclose that they Are carriers or both what is to be done about them and what percent age of the contaminated Are we talking about one hears the figure one third. One third Are prepared recklessly to continue a Way of life notwithstanding that they Are death carriers and guilty of aggression. The news also advises us that a woman is suing her sex husband on the ground that she can now prove he knew he had herpes which condition he did not disclose to her so she wants something on the order of a million dollars and the judge says it s an of litigation i.e., the Law recognizes that silence under the circumstances was a tort Tor which a jury can permit recovery. But dead people can t recover damages and anyone who contracts the killer Strain of aids Dies usually within two years. What about requiring anyone who has aids to be tattooed discreetly to protect against nonchalant spread ing of the disease i ventilated that thought recently and have gotten angry denunciations from the people one would least expect namely Gays they so identified them selves in most cases Over the phone. But they would be the principal beneficiaries of such a social contrivance even As pedestrians Are the principal beneficiaries of rein imposed on Drunken Drivers. One or two callers were so thoughtless As to compare the tattooing of aids carriers with the tattooing practice by Hitler the obvious distinction being that Hitler was advancing the cause of genocide whereas the other proposal seeks to Advance the longevity of uninfected Gays. Free societies Reserve contingent Powers to protect themselves an Extension of the principle of quarantine Inus they conscript generations of 18-year-Olds when the nation is threatened. The projection published by the economist of London is that at the current rate 250,000 americans will die of aids in the next eight years. That is live Umes the casualty rate of eight years of the Viet usic rate Surrey the furious protests of the such protests Are not unhealthy. It is perhaps tempting or or or mrs. Jones to say the hell with it if an a infected Gay wants to do that kind of thing with another Gay and gets infected for his pains that s his worry rms 1sn a m.8 8oveTing Public health reflect so i m  Public in general even the Public that behaves recklessly. And we Are All made aware of the rm/k1"1.? v1ct m the child born with aids be so a c a Meone did something not knowing that he she was trafficking with a Carrier of that awful disease against which we must mobilize. Universal press Syndicate