European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 17, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 11 Ann Landers dear Ann Landere i wonder How Many people realize How much is trillion is. Let me explain if you were to count a trillion 1 1 Bills one per second 24 hours a Day it would Lake 32 years. Or with is trillion you could buy a j 100,000 House for every family in Kansas Missouri Nebraska Oklahoma and Iowa. It or you could put a 110,000 f cat in the garage of each one of those houses and build 250 $10 million libraries 250 $10 million Hospital and 500 Sio million schools and put what was left in Itic Bank and from the in Cut alone pay 10,000 nurses and teachers plus give a 55,000 Bonus for every family in those slain. Worth noting president realm s fanciful strategic defense Initia Tive the Star wars anti missile scheme carries a Price lag of s3 trillion. Frank. A., South Plainfield no. Dar Frank thinks million i m i fold Lay trillion your mind  k Tun la Mike people think More clue atty about How the Tov emment spends oar Money. Dear Ann Landers want 10 talk about discrimination Jum Lum on the to or radio or pick up a newspaper. Wherever you turn you will hear or read about the hardships of the single working Mother. Why Don i anyone say a word about the single work ing fatties i realize that  Are not As numerous As single work ing mothers but our numbers Art Browing. We Nave the same problems and responsibilities. We ire Short of Money  must do the laundry mend ing grocery shopping cooking cleaning attend to sick kids and to Sillers who Don t show up not to mention Deal with exhaustion loneliness heartache and difficulty answering questions such As Why does t mom come and get us weekends Tike she is supposed to if you Are fair i will see this in the paper. Single dad in Dumas. Texas dear dad i a printed Letten from Slagle dds the Rewt re cent from a divorced father who described his. Day. 11 wit a heu Bimker. Sorr Niy Folke is unable to provide rapid of Back in. The Date of but column  dec. 12, 1987, Van can go to your newspaper or Public Library and took it up. Dear Ann Landers the letter about the Tittle boy who lost his hair be cause of an illness reminded me of this True Story two women who work in this office were in the washroom together. Mary said to Ruth Why Don t you do something about your hair it looks like a  Ruth quietly removed the Hairpiece and said it is a wig. I have  there s a lesson to be Learned Here. Joan w., Vancouver dear cd j a couple of in Solub Fink Alp Don t have to look by. A Good one thai its Well Cuie ily go wide text Eft second Don t make clue my remarks. Dear Ann Landers with so much talk about economic uncertainty Here s How i handle it. When i get up in the morning the first thing do is Check the Forbes list of the to richest people in the country. If my name in t on it i go la work. Brunswick no. In be absence of mar Isles i recommend steady employment readers oppose View on nato s value in Reading the recent Tetter on re appraising the role of the United slates in nato i noted several Point thai demand enlightenment. I will attempt to restrict my discussion to three major areas historical evidence counter to this writer s logic a Brief look at our Strate Gic alliances and the role of oar forces in those Alli ances. First  Are not preparing for the last War. The United Slaw has sent combat troop to four different conflicts since the last War on european soil Pur coun try Alto tried to minimize its list of True vital inter  secondly recent writers have too narrowly defined our vital interests by linking them to Only our territorial and political integrity. Any discussion of our Strate Gic alliances must also include the Rote of economics. Who do  think finance our National debt Long before there is Ever a politically unified world there will be an economically unified one. We do not have to look any further than the european common Market to see that fact. Wilt  defend the countries thai Are our partners in Trade  import almost everything from Oil to shoes to Deel. Our policy of defending Forward makes sense if you believe that it i less costar. In terms of manpower and dollars to sustain a defense than to mount an invasion and subsequent rebuilding of a country. Whether  will admit it or not  will always be economically entangled in our strategic alliances. Finally let us look at the role of our forces in our strategic alliances. Our presence in Europe is the embodiment of our National will. We have made a commitment to our political and economic partners that  will defend their and subsequently our Freedom. To renege on our commitments abroad would place into question our resolve to defend democracy and Freedom at All costs. The morally right Road is not always the least costly or least painful Rood to follow bal in is always the tight Road. J would like to express my disappointment in Thi writer s isolationist View. Part of the reason our sol Diers do such a Good Job in Europe is because they feel needed and arc needed. For an officer and a Leader to denigrate the need for their presence is to do them a disservice. Cut june b. Bagby Kitzinger Germany 1 would like to respond to the letter advocating Dis solution of the nato Alliance. The writer stale j that nato is a costly obsolete proposition thai docs not protect american National Security interests and in Stead increases the likelihood of global nuclear War in the defense of Europe. The writer also states that nato is unnecessary because american vital interests can be rigorously and narrowly defined implying thai the survival of the Western democracies is irrelevant to our National survival. This writer would have in believe thai an isolationist fortress America approach to our de sense would be More Likely to prevent a nuclear Holo Caust and allow us to preserve our Freedom at a greatly reduced Cost London is plans reunion the London Cabri High Sci ool Rit Voa Ott Wuhu pm ten conducting � it taxi vat wort dec Macii Tor to Tow thl Nti a in it Brj omit in who a my Ulm Wertti he to Nail Duna Ira Yurt at i960 Vougn a a Mon n put fund 19 a lev Bio m Hariton to. To lha mint Lbruce de Smitti  us Iiams oort hour Lett. Toll t70t3thmon, 113 h3wbm i fail to comprehend the logic behind this argument. In the event that All american forces both conventional and the so called nuclear umbrella were to be withdrawn from Western Europe i feel that soviet Continental dominance would be a fad before the Pas Sage of a decade. The Contention Hal the Mere absence of american Power would not cause the col lapse of our allies and Lead to their domination by the user in not supported either by military political real Ity or by common sense. The loss of american conventional forces would so seriously cripple the defense of the North european Plain that the Success of a soviet invasion would be assured. The knowledge Hal no . Nuclear response would be forthcoming would make it certain Given historical trends of russian conquests of adjacent valuable territories. The defeat of nations is not solely dependent upon Battlefield actions however. The loss of political will to resist the despair of a nation s leadership and population will cause either a panicked hopeless defense strategy or a Tula collapse of he defense Effort a lesson both France and the United Stales have Learned in this Century. Sudden withdrawal of our Protection would have that effect in the minds of our allies what would the reactions of our erstwhile allies be when faced with an impossible military situation and the inevitable soviet political subversion following in the Wake of our Retreat behind our oceans my View and apparently the View of our government since 1945, is that such a situation would result in a series of appeasement which would eventually result in total soviet domination of Europe and hence the entire hemisphere. Were this to occur the writer implies thai  could survive on our own due to our rigorously and narrowly defined vital interests which would ostensibly be unharmed by such a calamity. The american econ omy is highly Complex and interdependent. The technological base of our society has not been Able to subsist solely on resources within our Borders is Nee its most complicated component was the steam engine. The economic chaos resulting from the loss of re sources from our overseas trading partners would at Best vastly lower our Standard of living and give us the political instability Hal would follow. At worst such a scenario would make our Industrial base incapable of sustaining the nuclear deterrent that this writer relies upon for our unilateral defense. In this age no country not even ours can afford to be an Island in every sense. Aside from the reasons for nato dictated solely by self interest our system of government and our Way of life is based upon the belief that individual Freedom and human dignity Are the rights of All people not just cilia cons of our great nation. 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