European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes saturday june 21,1986 William Buckley it s us versus them whose Side Are you on the Contra debate is coming up again now and it s Lime 10 review sonu1 of Ilic rhetoric that ii in been us d. As an example of Militancy opponents of Contra Aid like to cite Patrick Buchanan. Now. Pal Buchanan is one of the Lus Tiesi polemic is. M town and sometimes one gels the impression that he Thmas nun acc is just a link effete. Here is what he wrote Aboul the sandinista in March Abo Iii the i a Ricter ofic sandinista regime doubt no longer remains. Even the useful idiots of Lenin s depiction the liberated nuns and marxist Mary Knoll cars. The journalistic Camp followers and ensured professors anxious 10 now the coeds with How they up led Coffee bean for the revolution seem de  sinti i wish 1 had said that. And he went on desertion of the democratic resistance by Congress would Lead As night follows Dav to loss of Central  and then the line inc y like most to Hale whose Side Art you on Wanh the Vine on Contra Aid the democratic party will reveal whether it stands with Ronald Reagan and inc resistance or Daniel Onega and the communists no Ilic usher Side was hardly restrained. Rep. Henry gun ale. A Texas said in was All very Sim ple the president is obviously lusting after thai false Bitch goddess of  rep. I Arron Mitsiell p my. As Pelt outspoken or. Speaker a foul slinking odor has already been injected into the political campaigns. Through smear innuendo and my Earth Yoke sri yemenis they Hau had the Lenic Rily 10 question the Palerio ism of some of us in the con Gress who oppose Reagan s misguided attempts to Etc. Rep Ronald Dellums. D-calif., came right to inc Point As he saw i when members stand up to assert their . Their responsibilities. Press coherence Are called be Ops Are challenged they Are no communist they arc anti american they Are disloyal human beings because they do not walk i lockstep. I would suggest or. Chairman that nazi Ger Many of inc 1930s was a nation where people walked in  one would think thai Ronald Dellums an in Imale of the marxists who were Castro Zig Gre Nada until the Reagan liberation would be As anxious to bring up Nicaragua As or. Nixon would be to bring up Waler Gaie. But the Point arises How docs one correctly put it say of the British and French who did t want to rearm when warned of inc dangers of Hitler. That they were pro Hitler no they weren t. Bui their policies certainly assured Hitler s Success. The John Birch society under Roben Welch Sank out of legitimate View for one reason namely the proclivity of or. Welch 10 assume that objective effect indicates subjective intention if Eisenhower stood idly by when Stalin grab co East Germany Why Hal was because Eisenhower wanted Stalin to have East Germany. No. It docs i work. Carl Rowan on the other hand a mature people Are at some Point entitled to conclude that the objective effect of certain policies is pro communist and then ask whether icy want Hose who Back such programs in Power in Washington. Take House speaker tip o Neille mass. A recent listing of major recent foreign policy issues was done by policy review managing editor Dinesh d Souza after which the positions of Reagan o Neill and Gorbachev were recorded. Here is How in shapes up Pershing deployment yes Reagan no o Neill no Gorbachev cruise missile deployment Ynn Neutron bomb y n n Aid Locon Trai y n n abide by Salt ii by y lift Grain embargo y n y strategic defense y n n nuclear freeze n y y Aid to angolan rebels y n n Aid to marxist Mozambique y y y my missile Ynn b-1 bomber Ynn disinvestment in South Africa n y y Trade sanctions against soviets Ynn sanctions against Nicaragua Ynn military Aid Loel Salvador Ynn Aid to afghan rebels y y n now surely if a congressman were 100 percent of the time in favor of Gorbachev you could responsibly wonder whose Side he was on. Pal Buchanan asks about Aid to the contras whether congressman x is on the same Side As Ortega in opposing Aid to the Comras or on the same Side As Reagan favouring Aid to the Comras. You can to from a Vole on just that Issue make reliable generalizations bul it is fair to say that a lol of votes Over a Long period of Lime add up to a syn drome. If a Leisi Ator votes Day after Day year after year decade after decade against appropriations for the military at what Point can you legitimacy think of in in As a pacifist Mexico no More corrupted by dope than . The customs service can t Stop the flood of illegal drugs into the United Stales. Neither can inc slate department the drug enforcement administration the coast guard nor any other unit of government. So some elements of the Reagan administration have engaged in Scapegoat ing leveling what attorney general Edwin Meese Calls reckless attacks on Mexico and mexican officials. On May 13, in a shamefully irresponsible Bil of testimony before a Senate for eign relations subcommittee . Cus loss commissioner William von Raab accused the governor of the mexican stale of Sonora of owning four ranches that produce opium and marijuana. A variety of investigations indicate that gov. Rodolfo Felix Valdez owns no such ranches. In a television interview me Csc referred to von Raab As one of the unfortunate people in the customs serv ice and said the governor of Sonora was absolutely not involved in the drug Trade. Worse than inc apparent slander of Felix Valdez was the Effort by von Raab and assistant Secretary of stale Elliot a Abrams to blame massive official corruption in Mexico for the inability of . Officials to solve inc drug problem mexican officials admit Hal they have a problem of drug related corruption As is evidenced in the de Lama did government s firing of More than 750 police personnel and the dismissal of More than 300 other officials suspected of corruption. Bul in would be hard to make a Case that drug related corruption is More pervasive or cancerous in mexi co than in inc United states. Drug traffickers in the United slates have corrupted policemen Bankers court officials drug enforcement agents and laundered millions of dollars through legitimate business. Soil is outrageous for any . Officials to suggest that the heart of the problem lies in corruption in Mexico. Angry mexican officials have pointed out thai As a percentage of its Federal Bud get Mexico spends almost twice As much As does the . On the War against  in 1985, the mexican secretariat of defense spent almost $100 million in the Effort to Stop illegal drugs from enter ing the . And has committed almost 25,000 military personnel full time to this Effort. The . Department of de sense spent 115 million in fiscal 1985 and has committed few . Military personnel to inc drug enforcement of  since 1976, Over 150 mexican officials have died and 300 have been wounded considerably higher than the number of . Drug enforcement casualties. Mexico makes pointed notice of the fact that the same von Raab who accuses Mexico of Complete Lack of cooperation has testified in behalf of Budge proposals that would result in a loss of 1,400 personnel in the customs service. Rendering it less Able to apprehend drug smugglers. 0 the employee who ought to be lost to. The customs service is von Raab but despite incredible Public criticism by Meuse he is still there. The is. Deserves something bet Ter than irresponsible scapegoating in us War against drugs. Mexico faced with myriad economic and other woes de serves something better than the Small minded insults h has been gelling from von Raab and his ilk. C news America syndic i the opinions expressed in the urns and cartoons on this Page rep j resent those of the authors and Are id no a Way to be considered As a presenting the i views of the stare and stripes or the of a United states government