European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes wednesday september 13,1989 Leon Daniel Bush s War on drugs woefully underfunded  " " of like America s previous wars on drugs. Inc one declared by president Bush must be fought although it too May prove unwinnable. The Bush administration s strategy concentrates primarily on Law enforce ment which in past drug wars has had Little effect on illicit use and trafficking. Programs for prevention education and treatment aimed at reducing the demand for drugs arc woefully under funded in the Bush plan. The $900 million the president pro pres to spend for drug treatment would barely restore cuts made during the Rea Gan administration. That lean funding May explain drug car William Bennett s modest goals. Bennett wants to achieve an annual drop of Only 5 percent in the nation illicit use of narcotics when such use has declined about 12 percent a year since 1985. What is increasing Are the horrendous results of illicit use drug related crime. Aids transmission and drug addicted babies. By leaning heavily on tougher Law enforcement Bennett has steered the administration onto a collision course with those in Congress who want to change the emphasis to prevention treatment and research. Wrong headed strategy was to blame for the Reagan administration s loss of its War on drugs. As vice president. Bush played a key role in that dismal Effort. The Reagan administration gave top priority to breaking up major narcotics rings in the United Stales and stopping drugs at inc Border. Such efforts Over eight years consumed 80 percent of the $21 billion spent by the Federal govern ment on fighting drugs and hardly put a Dent in trafficking. So. As a Buzz word and a strategy interdiction is out of favor. Congress moved to switch priorities in its 1988 drug Bill which required that 60 percent of future Federal spending on drugs be targeted to the de Mand  that legislation would increase drug George f. Will abuse cd Calion. Cocaine treatment and medical care for addicts with aids. But because of budget restrictions most of these programs were not funded. Like Reagan Bush is trying to wage War on drugs on the cheap using rhetoric rather than fighting for funding for pro Grams thai reduce demand. The enemy is addiction. Casual use of drugs has been declining while addiction to crack cocaine especially in poor neighbourhoods has been skyrocketing. Congressional critics of the Bush Strat egy estimate that funding treatment pro Grams for pregnant addicts children under 16 and youths in the juvenile jus Tice system would Cost $3.9 billion quadruple what the administration plans to spend for All types of treatment. The Bush administration should be credited with demonstrating far More willingness than the previous one to wage War on drugs realistically. Bennett a hard nosed Field commander needs to keep firmly in mind his own words the simple problem with drugs is painfully obvious too Many americans still use  having identified the problem Bennett suggested its solution when he added and so the highest priority of our drug policy must be a stubborn de termination further to reduce the Overall level of drug use  United press Kinlein Illonal Wii because if saved civilization Worth winning London in Whitehall a steady trickle of tourists shuffles through the subterranean rooms where Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet conducted business while the bombs fell. Taped voices of Neville Chamberlain and Churchill and Hitler Echo through the Concrete corridors. Across the River in the Imperial War museum Visi tors must make reservations for the Blitz experience a simulation Complete with smoke sounds of air raid sirens and make believe bomb concussions. It is very popular. It lasts eight minutes. A recurring theme in modern thought in writings As diverse As those of Freud and Proust is the insistent disturbing prompting of uncontrolled memory. And a recurring political task is the recapture of the past through cultivated memories those Mystic chords that bind people into communities. However commemorations such As those of the events of 50 years ago can give false clarity to the past. What really began in september 1939? the . Taylor was a contrarian but he had a Point when he said the second world War began in april 1932 when Mao tse lung and Chou Teh declared War on the japanese in the name of the Kai Ngsi soviet. Taylor said the War in the european theater began in March 1938 when the army of a great Power Ger Many crossed a Frontier Austria s to Force Politi Cal change John Lukacs says that what began 50 years ago was the last european  As a european War it lasted until december 1941 at which Point it became world conflagration and the Fate of Europe feel into the hands of inc United states and the soviet Union. What certainly began on sept. I 1939, was the Quick Conquest of Poland. By december 1939, Only two european slates were really involved in combat the soviet Union and Finland. British and German troops did not meet until april 20, 1940, in Norway. And As Taylor wrote until l j-12 a wife in London was More Apt to be a War casualty than was her husband in the army. The outcome of the War was settled in inc first week of december 1941, on dec. 5. When the red army launched a general offensive on the Moscow front and on dec. 7, when America was dragged into the War. No one knew what the world was slipping into 50 years ago. A Washington Post headline of sept. 3, 1939. Said both sides agree not to bomb civilians. The War that in its first month featured charges by polish horse cavalry ended with two atomic blasts. In 1941, the . Aimy had 20,000 horses the most since the civil War. Paul Fussell in his Quirky dyspeptic fascinating new Book wartime is an archaeologist of the Amer ican and British psyches unearthing evidence of their conditions during inc War. He confirms the judgment that it was a War in which disillusionment set in before the first shot was fired. In 1914, Rupert Brooke spoke for Many when he thanked god for the outbreak of War rejoicing in it As an Awakening from a world grown old and cold and weary relishing War As a cleansing invigorating experience As swimmers into cleanness leaping. However the nations that turned wearily to the second world War had read All quiet on the Western front and seen the movie of it As Well As grand  they had read Dos passes three soldiers Hemingway s a Farewell to arms Robert Graves Good Bye to All  and other literature conveying the taste of ashes from the last  second world War was Fussell says a War of impersonal forces shaped by developments in mass production and propaganda. It was Krupp against general motors a War in which anonymity the annihilation of individuality was underscored by the name Given to the men who conquered the ground . Government Issue  Sledge a Marine whose memoirs Fussell has rescued from obscurity recalls Okinawa where re placements were killed before their units Learned their names. They were forlorn figures coming up to the meal grinder and going right Back out of it like Home less waifs unknown and faceless to  unread books upon a , of course the War was a ghastly experience a maelstrom of modern forces that a poet has called the conspiracy of the plural again she singular. But it was waged in behalf of singularity. Suppose our Side had not  Lukacs writes it is inconceivable that in the first world War a nationalist War. A bar of German music the first bar of Beethoven s fifth symphony three Short notes and one Long note Morse code v Lor Victory could have been adopted As a Call of Defiance by the nations fighting Germany. But the second world War was waged in defense of a civilization of which Beethoven is an exemplar. It was a War Worth winning. C waft Titington Post writers group