European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday August 2t. 1987 maj a fill Jaq my he Embil Iab ism a Ribhi he he he a Contra hearings Paradox hypocrisy i am a German 45 years old and a professional translator. I feel compelled to speak out about the Contra affair the detrimental role played by american Liberal in Congress and the harmful activities of Ger nun leftists jeopardizing Western defense and promoting the cause of the West s foes worldwide Many germans do not realize that there exists a political left in the uni Ted Stales of America. Bui there is Only they Call themselves liberals for Many weeks now the liberals in Congress have been using an ii pet of Legal technicalities As a pretext for harming or Eveyl paralysing what we should see As the True Ameri Ca the anti communist America the America defend ing our common platform of life the Only America on which we germans can place our Hopes. What would be the credibility of an America whose Strong armed forces Are stationed Over Here supposedly helping to prevent a communist takeover but which at the same time tolerates communist takeovers in i own backyard. Just look at the Paradox on the one hand we and you Are putting up a tremendous defense Effort to try and prevent communist conquests. Any attempt on the pan of nato to push Back an invasion by soviet faces would require an enormous amount of Energy woodshed and sacrifices to succeed. Bui on the other hand we he West Are supposed to stand idly by when the soviets have their proxies do the conquering for them the result is exactly the same How can nato still make sense if you Are expected to allow anti Western regime to establish themselves effortlessly right in the heart of the West what sense Doe it make la let Russia s offspring do exactly what we would not allow Ibe formidable red army to do. There is no Way o get the communists out of Eastern Europe he Power ratio stands against it. Bui in Centra America you have the leverage 10 do it ind easily at Hal the message should be this planting Palm tree in Greenland is less futile Han establishing a communist regime where the . Has the leverage to prevent it. This is even More Ime when you can rely on native anti communist Freedom fighters such As the contras to do the fighting for their own interests for yours and for ours provided they Are Given full and undivided support. 1 greatly appreciate those americans who Are trying to do just that and i deeply resent those who Are trying to Slop Ihm. This would show the soviets that you have Learned their skill the Art of winning through proxy wars without involving you r own troops. Al his Point some of you May Bonder what about those demonstrators in from of oar Barracks with slogans which May be summed up As being Noth ing less than a Call for world wide surrender to communism. ". Out of Nicaragua is one of , some Are communists others Are just useful Idi ots for the communist cause. They Are loud and ugly. You have them in the United states As Well. Many of them have come to the conclusion Hal the communists Are invincible. And therefore if Youcan t beat them join  but never mind Liliose germans the ones in Spile of whom you Are Here. Instead look 10 those because of limn you arc Here. I am one of them. I am from a family that just narrowly escaped the horrors of the communist Lake Over in East Germany although not All our relatives survived the liquidation of people s  in our family we arc so allergic to anything related to communism we arc Apt to break out in a rash just thinking Abou it. This is also True for the next generation my , 12 and 9. Whom i have thoroughly alerted to what we Are up against. I keep emphasizing How grateful we must be to the Ameri cans for defending the Western world our Western world. They know about Vietnam Cuba Nicaragua. They know whal the sticker on my car a heart for .," stands for. But they also know whal to thin of those with inc leftist pea Cenik slickers on them. And they corf men every Lime they see one of hem. Those comments arc not Friendly believe me. If More of my countrymen had engaged in serious conversations Wilh their children about what is at stake in the world we would not be seeing those Young idiots today preaching surrender to communism in front of . Bases. Back to those of us germans because of whom you arc Here the Only America with any positive mean ing to us is the conservative America holding up la