European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 06, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday june 6, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 13 commentary Sydney h. Schanber Bush uses Bush league approach to Chino a George Bush has an impeccable sense of timing. Knowing that the second anniversary of the Slaughter of chinese students in Tiana men Square was just a few Days off he of course chose the occasion to announce that he was a Reward Quot ing the Slaughter ers the Beijing government by renewing their a most favored nation status for another year. This gives the chinese regime trading benefits Worth $6 billion. Nice Reward. Its an unusual gift Only because we normally Grant our boons to bad Guys in private As with Manuel Noriega and Saddam Hussein. Those two favored tyrants you la remember prospered mightily from Reagan Bush secret payoffs until they became such International disgraces that even their Washington protectors were forced to rescind their immunity and take chinese h ave remained immune because they Are bigger we Only punish our smaller dictatorships when they Embarrass us. There Are two reasons Why we will not put up with ingratitude from Petty despots. One is because our payoff contract with them says they must conduct their butchery in private. The other is More important it is because we can defeat their fifth rate armies in Short order and then hold ticker tape parades to Cele brat american Pride and ensure the reelection victories of the incumbent Percsi Dent payoff artist. The chinese however have a Popuchi Tion of 1.1 billion. A number like that sends orgasmic tremors through George Bush a big business a Campaign contributors who see 1.1 billion chinese As the most wondrous economic Market in country club history. So far however the chinese Are making More Money off the american Market than we Are off theirs. They rack up their profits from the lower tariffs we apply to their goods As part of their a most favored nation status. Just imagine the profits we might give them if Only in addition to the students of the democracy movement they d gun Down a group of Freedom seeking Farmers or wipe out a few. Hundred factory workers asking for fair wages. As unerring As is George Bush a timing his Way with words is even More unparalleled. In announcing the Extension of Trade benefits to China in his commencement speech last week at his Alma mater Yale George said that those who argue for withholding such rewards from China Are indulging in a self righteous Ness draped in a false morality a. He added a you do not Reform a world by ignoring strange but 1 done to remember George trying to Reform the government of Panama. All i remember is that he and his team were giving millions on the quiet to Noriega to buy his cooperation in their secret ideological wars against the communists in Nicaragua and Al Salvador. And As they passed on the suitcases of greenbacks to old pineapple face they were fully aware that he was receiving even bigger suitcases from the Medellin cocaine Cartel for his cooperation with them. A and Oil yes while we were Suh Idiz ing Saddam Hussein a War machine because he was doing us the favor of warring against Iran does anyone recall any Reagan Bush efforts to bring democratic reforms to Iraq a we want to Advance the cause of Freedom not just snub nations that Arentt yet wholly free a George told the Walies and he insisted that he was getting Tough with Beijing. He is making Concrete moves he said a for broader democratization for respect for human rights throughout China.�?�. And How is he doing this a just last month a he said his jaw firm and his fist raised a we cited China Lor pirating . Copyrights and on god i Peng and the rest of the a politburo must be shaking in their shoes. George talked also of the contributions the chinese government was making under his Tutelage to world order. He talked of the support China gave us in the United nations for the desert storm War against Iraq. He talked of China a help in relaxing tensions Between the two Korea. And then again his ineffable touch with language. He found a positive Way to describe yet another of Beijing a gifts to us All a its contribution to genocide. ,. L he chinese a he said Quot play a Central role in working to resolve the conflict in no he was t joking. He said it with a straight face for which lie probably deserves some kind of award for muscle control. Because the role that the chinese playing for two decades is to atari the murderous Khmer Rouge. Some though apparently not George might recall that the Khmer Rouge Are the maniacal communists who were responsible for the deaths of As Many As 2 million cambodians when they ruled that country of 7 million from 1975 to 1979 a and who now continue to kill cambodians and disrupt the country from their guerrilla bases in the Western Jungles and in neighbouring Thailand an american ally. You be got to really like the chinese government to say that keeping the Khmer Rouge armed and Strong can be defined As a working to resolve the conflict in where does George find this remarkable language Why can he never find any words about principle about human rights abuses about the terrible Ness of people who mow Down students demonstrating Lor Freer expression maybe he a just too Busy working out his new list of economic rewards for our despotic business partners around the world. C Nowsch . Rosentha West must end Aid to soviet gang of tyrants a look at these people a. Politicians economists diplomats and journalists in the West. See How hard they work to ignore the one voc Riding need of the people of the soviet Union the a a Brand new government. G everywhere else in the world that communism has collapsed the West has understood that the first thing the people wanted and the starting Point Lor any Hope of real change was to get rid of the collection of bureaucrats policemen wardens and propagandists that made up the failed hated government a particularly the communist party political leaders who had perched Lor so Many brutal years atop the whole corrupt Appa rot nobody questioned the urgent . The poles to get rid of what remained of the communist party tend its disgraced leaders. Nobody warned Vaclav Havel against bringing a whole new democratic Era to Czechoslovakia. A a. Nobody scolded East Germany for trying to bring to trial some of the men who made death the penalty of climbing Over the Berlin Wall. J yet when it comes to the soviet Union the Wem agrees that the very men who ruled the the Center who for years preached and enter cd the wretched economic doctrine that wrecked the soviet Union and who ran the whole National landscape of political prisons should not Only remain in control but also solemnly considers How to raise a couple of Hundred billion dollars to make sure they do. Are we mad someday historians will write books try ing to an or that question. How did it come to be that twice in less than a year the West looked straight at the possibility of great achievement for civilization shuddered and walked away. A. A a. A in february the United states walked away irom the ouster of Saddam Hussein and allowed him to remain in Power. 1 in june the whole West looks at the possibility that the communist system May disappear from the soviet Union and scratches its head about How much Money to contribute to the country so that the who helped build the system can stick around Tor More a years of criminal misrule. Maybe we done to need historians. In Iraq it was failure of moral stamina and political Compass by a president and a few of the Macii around him. About the soviet Union it is More complicated. There Are Western specialists and diplomats a a president Bush and Secretary of state James a. Baker 111 included a who Long ago committed their reputations to the political survival of Mikhail s. Gorbachev and cannot let go. A a Money is involved too a big Money the dreams of european and american businessmen of Western guaranteed lug deals with a soviet government they helped sax probably most important is fear 11 Gorbachev does who knows what instability May follow in the soviet Union and its neighbors nobody knows that. But we do know that Ever since world War ii what created instability in Europe has beep the exis tence in the soviet Union of a government ruled by a Kremlin Lew. It is not the West a right to bring Down the Gorbachev Kremm based government or to plot against it. But neither do we have the right to intervene by using massive Aid to prolong the present government which has dug Itsell deeper into disaster every year and whose Rule is clearly sputtering to an end. Gorbachev does not need hundreds of billions of dollars to do what his country requires. All he needs is to recognize that he has failed economically and resign a while he has Honor lust As head of the party and within three months As head of slate. A during those months nationalities that want to so cede should be allowed to do so a six to eight would. The rest could prepare for elections that would choose a new president and Council. Lie would preside Over a decentralized federation that would w ipe out any special status for the Tommu nist party and create a new economic and political nation. Quot a he West could assist to the Best of. Its ability without fear of merely prolonging tragedy the soviet people would not then enter into a promised land of Prosperity and guaranteed stability seven decades of communism Are heavy heritage. By i they would at last have the essential base a a new society free not Only of the gulag but also of its doctrines its apparatus and its masters and servants. Ritsi i York ii fies Quot
