European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday september 14,1990jim Faina look beyond  military showdown since politics is nine tenths hokum anyway it May be unfair to sin tic out summits As Pinnacles of silliness till global to does make these photo Ops truly bizarre. Politicians love them. All those Imperial trappings As stage the entire world for audience and a License to peddle whatever you choose. President Bush obviously Felt a need to saturate the worlds screens with cuddly images of himself and Gorby copying up. Hence the one Day stand in Finland. Whether it worked is another Story. Saddam Hussein is no Dummy. He was probably More relieved than spooked when the inescapable next question a what to do if the embargo fails a went unanswered. He already knew his old buddy the soviet Union was lined up against him. What he Learned from the Helsinki show was that Gorby is unprepared for the sight of blood. Id like to be wrong but 1 believe the embargo will fail and we then will have no Choice but to invade. To leave Saddam in Kuwait with army and chemical Arsenal intact would Render the entire Enterprise a mockery. That does no to mean we need to Chase him into Iraq and topple his government As new Republic Magazine and new York times columnists William Sabre and . Rosenthal would have us do even before enough troops Are on line. These three see the world through the prism of israelis liked government. Israel wants Saddam beheaded and that Sall they need to know. The debate is waged exclusively by pundits a All politicians having rallied behind Bush until his ratings fade to go after Saddam that Way would create a Martyr and alienate the Arab masses. It also would waste american lives. Whatever other countries including saudi Arabia contribute its Clear we re going to have to do the bulk of the fighting. Okay. It s Worth it to keep the Oil flowing and establish the principle of International order and Security in the Post cold War world. The problem of Saddam almost surely will solve itself if he a humiliated. Defeated despots tend not to die in bed. During the War we presumably would have destroyed his chemical and nuclear capacities. We can make it Clear to his successor that these must not be revived. The remaining problems then would become dazzling opportunities if Bush can hold together the coalition he has so skilfully cobbled. These include a permanent Security Force for the Gulf under . Auspices and an All out Effort to bring peace to the Middle East by resolving the israeli Arab conflict. Bush has been right thus far to refuse to subordinate . Troops to International command. If we re to do the fighting we have a right to do it our Way. The United nations still is too Hamstrung by old enmities to be trusted with the Job. Down the Road Well need to drop the Lone Ranger role though and work to make the United nations the effective peace keeper it was intended to be. That a the sensible pragmatic path to Burden sharing. Well also need to drop our old objections to an International conference on the Middle East with full soviet participation. If the .s.r. Continues to step up to its obligations As it has lately together we can establish the framework for lasting peace. C Cox news service William f. Buckley or. And Light thoughts on new Yor some serious in casual conversation with Edward Koch in secure circumstances i mentioned the Young Man from Utah who had been stabbed to death by a teen aged new yorker in angry response to the Young Many a efforts to defend his Mother from being mugged. A i have to Tell you a said the former mayor of new York City a i cried when i read that  those who doubt that he did so do not know Edward Koch and perhaps they done to know the gut anxiety being Felt among new yorkers about events in new York. He also remarked that new York was looking desperately like another Chicago another Detroit. A if it goes that Way that a it the end of new York. Its said about Dinkins a the reference is to his successor mayor David Dinkins a a that he is sliding Over the  a what threshold a a when they make fun of you. When you become the object of derision. Its very hard to climb  it is probably appropriate to remark that not absolutely everybody in the United states is All that unhappy in a world in which unhappy things happen that new York City should be the special victim of circumstances. Over the weekend there was a Celebration by members of the staff of mayor John Lindsay 196674. One account of it recalled Murray Kemp Tonose buoyant sentence about him when he ran for mayor a the is fresh everyone else is  it is an unhappy truth that the Lindsay administration did nothing to arrest the deterioration of new York City. After eight years everything a education housing crime health care a was worse than it had been before. And everything has continued to Worsen. Over the weekend the new York times published an eloquent elegy about new York City by Anna Quindlen. A there is the sinking feeling that accompanies that moment in a boat when you find water in your shoes a she wrote. And the note of final despair a this is so sad to me and sad to me too is that not a single social scientist not a single Urban planner certainly not any politician seems to have any idea How to cure  now those Are fighting words for a can do society. Granted conservatives reject the use of the word a a cure addressed to social problems for the simple reason that social problems Are never cured they Are merely alleviated y of do not a a cure the crime problem or that of illegitimacy or of indigence. But the idea that you cannot alleviate the mess in new York City is sheer Liberal self justification. It is the Short form for saying a we cannot alleviate a problem while maintaining our old  and the answer to that observation is no you cannot. Because your old habits caused the present mess. Is it unconstitutional to 1. Eliminate rent control in 10 years that would All but Clear away the problem of the homeless and restore decent living quarters at a decent Price 2. Eliminate Trade Union monopoly and oligopoly in 10 years that would lower the Cost of doing business in new York by enough to rejuvenate the Economy of the City 3. Empower new York residents to select the school they want to Send their child to in 10 years this would arrest and then reverse the decline in educational achievement scores of the body of new York children 4. Privatize garbage collection Intra City mail service and the subway system in 10 years you could mail a letter to someone entering the subway at 125th Street and the letter would be delivered when he got out at Brooklyn 5. Send away after conviction for any crime of violence beginning at age 16, the convict to a new York City Penitentiary for five years Institute the private police corps program of lawyer Adam Walinsky and double the size of the police Force in 10 years crime would be reduced by 75 percent 6. Eliminate the capital gains tax and the Stock Transfer tax reduce the sales tax by 2 percent Cut the income tax in half in one year commercial life would be reinvigorated 7. Forbid affirmative action employment policies by City agencies and double the penalty for racially discriminatory offences in 10 years racial passion would Cool. Nobody would have reason to Hope for artificial help 8. Make a National Holiday out of june 24, which is the Day i declared my candidacy for mayor of new York in 1965? Universal press Syndicate the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As representing the views of the stars and stripes or the United states government