European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes sunday february 22,1937 columns William f. Buckley critic of am Erict started essay with fallacy the screening by Abc of a ministries that depicts what life would be like under soviet occupation has evoked primal shrieks of indignation of which an essay in the new York times by John e. Mack is representative. Mack is identified As Brace yourself academic director of the Center for psychological studies in the nuclear age. Which is connected with inc department of psychiatry an affiliate of the Harvard medical school ill Cambridge he objects id amen a on the grounds that it induces fear and loathing of Russia by americans. Now that introduces the first and Foremost misunderstanding known in logic As the fallacy of division although Alt soviets arc russians it docs not follow that All russians Are soviets for convenience we Here designate soviets As willing instruments of soviet policies. These polices Are Best summarized As the maintenance of a totalitarian stale at Home with the ambition to Emend totalitarian control abroad. It docs not follow that fear and loathing of the soviets As Here distinguished is inc same thing As fear and loathing of the russian people. The former arc pc Pic like Stalin. Andropov and Gorbachev the lat Ter Are people like Baryshnikov Rostropovich and sob Bentsyn. It is perhaps easier to focus on this distinction if we remind ourselves thai the principal victims of the soviets arc russians. The population of the gulag a Thi Dago which reached about 12 million at its Peak was overwhelmingly russian russian Here defined Ai people who reside within the Borders of the Union of soviet socialist republics never mind whether the . Has claim to such As Latvia Estonia Lithuania or for thai Mailer the Ukraine Mack complains that the creators of amerika in that they depict raping and killing and massacre arc indulging in familiar russian nazi stereotypes and thai the most malignant of these is the idea that the Kremlin s purpose is to crush Al Independent thinking and bring about the final solution to the american problem. Well yes actually. What is a stereotyped front line soviet agent we received reports from the afghan front a few months ago that the latest ploy of inc soviet army there was to Plant explosives in children s toys and drop them in Center of resistance to take care so to speak of incipient juvenile delinquents. That would strike this observer As Al the very least a venture in discouraging Independent thinking. Now who gave Hose instructions 1 a soviet stereotype or a flesh and blood soviet general working under the tight command Structure that is. Working for the Kremlin and if a final solution to the problem of America is Noi an ambition of the command Structure of the William Safire first. Tuere was amer1k�-Ncw tuere5 the Oak the 9cwet Uwon. Porch tdbr3qme a mesh whose soviet state Why do the soviets squat there with 12,000 nuclear missiles one nuclear missile would be quite enough to Deal with the producers of Mack quotes George Ken Nan As saying that the soviet leadership As Mack puts in docs not wish intend or have inc capability to occupy the United states that is a 24-Karat half truth. The soviet Union s Lack of desire to occupy the United states is exclusively an aspect of its incapacity to occupy the United slates. But it docs desire to dominate american policy and to do this by a mixture of strength and intimidation. If the Day should come when thai were to happen Here would be a prevalence of the soviet will Over . Policy yes the Sattl ligation of the United Stales. Say it can t happen but do not Ever say in is nol willed by soviet leadership. As the logic of the wheel is 10 turn so the logic of soviet policy is to reduce the United Stales to satellite status. And if that were to happen life in the United states would be pretty much As depicted in amerika never mind that the agents of repression would be predominantly american not cuban. There Are toss than 20,000 soviets in Cuba but no political prisoner ratting in the Isle of Pines Carvi much for the racial Pedigree of his oppressors. Mack reports hat a soviet journalist that s the equivalent of referring to a department of de sense journalist shown a preview of abcs amerika in Lincoln neb., wrote about it in a Moscow newspaper what he wrote was feeling Hurt and hateful i silently cried in the hushed the soviet journalist if he cried in he hushed Cinema did so either a because he was told by inc Kab to cry or b because he saw re enacted inc barbarities routinely committed by the regime he lives under. About this we should All cry while keeping our powder dry to make certain we won t Ever have inc same things Here to cry about. Make Early pick from Trio of gop dark horses the country will not be weak ened nor the presidency ruined nor the causes of arms reduction and conservatism set Back by pitiless publicity after a mess up comes the cleanup and then the glory of a new election. Far republicans the old non pros with National connections and decades of experience in citizens committees Are moving into place in the Best known campaigns Peter Flanigan is clicking with George Bush Robert Ellsworth is committed to Bob Dole David Mahoney Kemp s team. But what of dark horses today 1 tout a Trio poking their noses in the starting Gale. I ran into Howard Baker getting off the Shu Iilva to new York where he i a director of at to. He gave me a lift into town. The former Senate majority Leader who just turned Down the Cia Job enjoys being a corporate country lawyer assembling his first nest egg but life in that fast Lane cannot compare to a Politi Cal rocket to the Moon. What docs he offer and when will he offer in Howard is n Man of inc Vita right of Cenich stable shrewd to the Brink of Wisdom profoundly knowledge Able of the Way Washington works. Char Acter is his Strong suit and Power is unlikely to corrupt him. But Lai Backness is nol an unalloyed virtue a fire in the belly is needed to Knock a few inches off his Waist. My guess is that hell take he plunge in a few weeks lest too Many Sunshine moderates leaping off the Bush Bandwa gon land in the Dole Camp. He has or dered up an extensive report on How to raise the $10 million to help make the nomination happen and those reports never say Don t a Haig bought me a Nice piece of Melon in the sunny breakfast room of the Hay Adams hotel. He brought along his press a genl presumably because he wanted a witness present Al still thinks i Bear him a grudge for tapping my phone when he was White House chief of staff in the Nixon Days. I Don t. He is serious about being in charge Al last and confident of his Abil Tylo give the country dynamic leadership no coyness or agonized self doubt about Al. The former Secretary of state and nato commander scorns what he Calls the ideological religiosity of the True be Lievers of left and right is comfortable with such a non Nuan Cal caveat and inv eight against protectionism with Fervour. He will kick off his Campaign with a High intensity speech in the grand Ball room of the Waldorf Astoria in new York on March 23, to which Over 120 tables at $5,000 each have already been sold to Benefit his political action com Mittee Cili Zeni for America some Dis miss him As this year s John formally but this four Star general has a coherent world View and i have seen him Rouse an audience. In surely would be an ironic turnaround if the republicans tapped Haig and Don Rumsfeld dropped by my times office the other Day tru Stingly alone to say be plans to become a Candi Date. Who s Rummy the former Illinois congressman stayed clean Cut As nato ambassador during Nixon s downfall served As president Ford s chief of staff and defense Secretary and besi of All stayed out of Washington for the past 10 years hands on managing the pharmaceutical company hat came up with inc artificial sweetener now in most diet drinks. Does someone with mule name recognition who is nowhere in the polls now have a Chance yes a dark horse could come in if inc front runner s support fractionated which Bush is struggling to prevent. Republican activists know Rummy who made Over 200 speeches last year for Many of them his Pac citizens for american values is among the biggest and he will do Well in Tele Vised debates As he seeks to become or. Bellcar than expect cd in the Early Prima Ries. Three quite different men with a Simi Lar political Outlook. Baker and Haig arc in their Early 60s. Like Bush and. Dole Rumsfeld is 54, closest to Kemp s 51. 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