European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 20, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 13 commentary William Saf Iredo your Homework this time or. President the moment has come for the president of the United states to step up to his obligation to form and articulate . Foreign policy in the Wake of the death of communism and the breakup of the soviet Union. The forum is the . Session next week in new York. The need for a substantive speech now scheduled for monday is All the More pressing because his last attempt a his dismaying a Chicken Kiev speech in the Ukraine on aug. I a betrayed a Misc on Cep Tual framework. That was the first address by a . President that had to be followed with an article by his National Security adviser to explain that what he said was not what he meant. It came with ill Grace for Bush to implicitly derogate his presidential predecessors from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan who waged and won the cold War for having engaged soviet leaders in duels of eloquent Bluff and  worse was his dire warning to the Peoples of the Ukraine the Baltic and other republics seeking Independence from Central Moscow Rule that a americans will not support those who seek Independence in order to replace a far off tyranny with a local despotism. They will not Aid those who promote a suicidal nationalism based upon ethnic  that was to Shore up the Gorbachev communist centralizes against the likes of the Yeltsin separatists. Although Brent scowcroft later insisted no pro Union purpose was in tended the Plain truth was emphasized in another line a America s first system of government a the Continentals Congress a tailed because the states were too suspicious of one another and the Central government too weak to protect Commerce and individual  came the Putsch and its counter coup and the restive republics scrapped the centralism to create just the sort of Loose articles of confederation Bush had instructed them were such a failure in our experience. Small wonder Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii received such a lukewarm reception in the Baltic republics the other Day. The United states shamefully was the 39th to recognize their Freedom just after Mongolia the people knew their Independence came despite the Bush administration s historically wrongheaded support of Moscow Central. Of. So the Bush foreign policy rigged while the world tagged and the United states found itself sadly mis positioned on the Central Issue of our time. That was last month. This is now. Time to abandon the old a new world order Quot based on a gemini Hegemony and to set Forward the new a new world order Quot based on a High flying Eagle and a Multi Polar Bear. Can president Bush come up with a conceptual framework in the Short time remaining yes if he stops his frenetic travel and lectern pounding to focus on his . Speech. L or openers quote president Harrison Whit said in 1sns, a we have no commission from god to police the  propose to intervene Only to protect vital interests As when an aggressor builds or buys nuclear weaponry. Invite world participation in our space shield to safeguard everyone from nuclear blackmail or accidental missile launch. State our intent to increase the momentum for Freedom around the world helping those who Root out the communists still lying in the weeds creating financial magnets and Laws to attract free Enterprise investments. Promise to use our economic retaliatory Power to break Tariff barriers and crush cartels. Show How we will provide humanitarian Aid in the spirit of our past generosity expecting our prosperous trading partners to do the same remembering that help toward self help is the Best help a no Marshall plans or grandiose designs especially when assets Are wasted on standing armies and legions of spies. By rising to this intellectual Challenge you will earn the worlds attention at your next great forum a in Hawaii three months from now aboard the battleship Missouri on the 5 the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. C Tho now York times Ulm it costs to my now a my it in know of or course a iou a those a rates Andimo Kmim no be James j. Kilpatric Congress should sink super sub program just before Congress began its August vacation sen. John Mccain brought a notable amendment to the floor. The Arizona Republican proposed to kill the Navy a $2 billion baby the submarine sea Wolf. It was one of the two Best ideas put before Congress this year. The other superlative idea was to kill the space station Freedom the $30 billion baby of the space program. Regrettably the space station survived. Regrettably under pressures of the Rush to recess Mccain withdrew his amendment. Nevertheless he was right on target. A Good Deal has happened since Mccain made his aborted Effort aug. 2. A group of hard line communist conspirators attempted to overthrow soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev. The coup failed. Responding in outrage the soviet parliament voted in effect to dissolve itself. The soviet Empire lies in autonomous pieces. The Power of the communist party has been smashed. Leningrad is known again As St. Petersburg. Otherwise it was a quiet vacation. Meanwhile Here at Home the electric boat division of general dynamics builders of sea Wolf has been forced to dismantle the partly assembled Hull. Hundreds of cracked welds will have to be replaced at a Cost running into tens of millions of dollars. The taxpayers will have to pay for the company a mistake. Mccain has the right idea. Instead of throwing Good Money after bad let us Stop now. At a certain stage in the funding of any major Federal project a Point of no return is reached. The project gains an unstoppable momentum but sea Wolf is not yet at that Point. The Arizona senator cannot be brushed Asinc a1. I know nothing pea Cenik. He is a graduate of the . Naval Academy at Annapolis md., a distinguished and courageous officer the Holder of every medal Short of the medal of Honor. As a combat Pilot captured in Vietnam he spent six years in a communist prison. If any member of the Senate has Good reason to advocate a Strong National defense it is John Mccain last of the cold warriors. Why does he want to sink sea Wolf in his View the super sub is not needed and the mind boggling expenditure is not necessary. A we do not need to spend 25 percent of the Navy a shipbuilding budget on a ship that is designed for threats to this nations vital Security interests that no longer  it would be far better in Mccain a View to invest the Navy a available funds in Airlift and sea transport improvements. Our amphibious forces verge on obsolescence. We especially need improvement in countermeasures against mines. For the foreseeable future Mccain sees no threat from a dismembered soviet Union. Threats will come from other directions. A the sea Wolf class submarine does not reflect these realities or the lessons of the Gulf War. It is a class of submarine which is designed to counter a very sophisticated soviet submarine and naval threat which none of our potential adversaries in the developing world  in testimony before the Senate armed services committee on june 7, spokesmen for the Navy attempted to make a plausible Case for saving sea Wolf. It was a lame Effort. Rear adm. Raymond g. Jones jr., assistant Deputy chief of naval operations for undersea warfare described his baby As Quot the key. The Blue chips to maintain undersea superiority. Sea Wolf can dive deeper lie quieter and carry More armaments than any submarine Ever built. The role of submarines is growing Jones said and not diminishing. Thirteen submarines participated in operation desert storm and several of them fired Tomahawk missiles. They also conducted surveillance operations and provided a valuable real time tactical intelligence while supporting the . Embargo against  1 vice adm. James d. Williams Deputy chief of naval operations for naval warfare told the Senate commit tee that Many countries Are striving to acquire a submarine Force. He mentioned China North Korea and India. These provide a a significant  while the . Submarine program barely coasts along the soviet Union is launching nine or 10 excellent submarines a year. It is imperative Williams said that the United states keep ahead of the soviets in both strategic and attack capability. Not surprisingly Connecticut s sen. Joe lie Berman supports sea Wolf the Democrat s Groton constituents at electric boat Are building it. Sen. John ii. Chafee , also defends the project but other senators have expressed Strong misgivings. Since the heyday of adm. Hyman Rickover the submarine service has functioned As the most powerful privileged and promoted Branch of the Navy. This overblown role never has been justified. Congress could begin to restore a belter balance by killing sea Wolf a submarine whose time has passed before it began. , ,ii part feb Syndicate