European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 11, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 11, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 13 commentary William f. Buckle Bush aides need a lesson in Buchananan Given that politics is substantially a Spectator sport the turn in the Bush Buchanan contest yields sneer Delight. One has to feel sorry for the Bush researchers. Obviously they have All but earned a . In Buchananan and what do they go on to do they publicize a Batch of excerpts from Buchanan a columns that bring to mind that he is a marvellously witty fellow whatever else his shortcomings. We have to begin by understanding that there is no Prospect of Buchanan a upsetting Bush for the nomination and that therefore he enjoys the maximum luxury of any a a candidate whose designs Are for something other than Victory. Nobody who like us folks writes three times every week and otherwise opines on issues about which people feel deeply or which violate the canons of political correctness can Hope to amass a majority of those delegates who come to the convention City intending to anoint the next president of the United states. And of course Pat Buchanan has exposed himself to charges that in some directions with respect to some people he is basely oriented. On this Point serious students of the political scene await reassurance. But meanwhile what does the Bush brigade come up with the new York times chose to kick off its Chresto Mathy of objectionable Buchanan quotes with the following a the Way to Deal with Duke is the Way the gop dealt with the far More formidable Challenge of George Wallace. Take a hard look at Dukes portfolio of winning issues and expropriate those not in conflict with gop  the Only Way to lose a vote by circulating that quote is to find a voter who turns White at any use of the name a a Duke other than in a sentence denouncing him. To be sure there Are such. But there Are also voters who will read that passage take off their glasses sit Down and say a a what a the matter with that a lets try again. Much is being made about Buchanan a lurking misogyny. How is it documented a less equipped psychologically to a stay the course in the brawling Arenas of business Commerce Industry and the professions women Are physically unequipped to compete in the worlds of athletics and  that a a half truth women Are hardly a a unequipped to compete in the world of athletics As witness that in the past 10 years they have relatively improved up against the performance of men. But the generality that a woman a nature is distinct is Correct and it is unlikely that Many women voters will Cavil at Harry g. Summers or. The Point being made. They should on the contrary be proud about some of those differences in nature. Those who expect to find indictments Only of left of Center types will be mystified. Here is Buchanan on Active economic figures in the �?T80s a what have the vulture capitalists of the leveraged buyout left us but an endless pile of clippings from women swear daily of their grinning selves and painted women a that line could have been written by Jimmy Breslin or John Kenneth Galbraith or any of the democratic candidates with a Good ghostwriter. And then on the subject of politics and passion a missing in the torpor of this politics of consensus is belief conviction passion. The Day of Juk and Barry Goldwater of Gene Mccarthy and Ronald Reagan the great partisans seems Over. But this is not the end of ideology it is a phony peace until new men arrive to give voice and direction to the passions of the  on the other hand the politics of entertainment Rule out serious politics. Someone who wishes to regroup the Republican party around his own leadership just does no to talk about disagreeing with vice president Dan Quayle As running the risk of a child  if he goes on to criticize other Republican conservatives a for instance Gingrich Kemp Gramm a Pat Buchanan will alienate critical figures for the grand realignment. Ronald Reagan did not win in 1980 by manhandling Republican leaders in 1976. He ran on the 11th commandment which forsworn criticism of people As distinguished from policies. But Buchanan s Way makes for High times. Universal press Syndicate it s time to vanquish Vietnam War Vampire a in folklore and superstition a says the dictionary a Vampire is a a Corpse that becomes reanimated and leaves its grave at night to suck the blood of sleeping  that is a definition that More and More describes the Vietnam War which Vampire like appears to be becoming More malevolent with age. Ironically the socialist Republic of Vietnam the country that suffered most from that War seems not to be affected by that plague. Visitors there report that the War has become ancient history As the vietnamese people a most born since the War ended a struggle to survive the deprivations of real life monsters the aged marxist ideologues still clinging to Power there. But Here in America the Corpse of the Vietnam War still emerges periodically from its grave. And the very count dra Cula of this phenomenon is movie director Oliver Stone. Done to take my word for it. Anyone who has watched Vampire movies knows How hard such monsters Are to detect. Generally it a takes one to know one a and that is what made new Republic movie critic Stanley Kauffmann a review of stones Juk in the Jan. 27, 1992, Issue so revealing. Kauffmann was a staunch Vietnam Era anti War protester who like Many of his ilk is thrown into foot stomping fits by the increasing evidence that he was protesting on the wrong Side of the Street. Not above digging up the Vietnam Corpse himself Kauffmann a paroxysms of rage against the movie Hanoi Hilton for example was a  self deluding denial. But although Blind to the Mote in his own Eye Kauffmann a Bias makes him peculiarly sensitive to what makes Stone tick. A Vietnam haunts Oliver Stone who served there a Kauffmann writes. A that was Clear enough in platoon which faults and All is the most scorching combat film about that War and in born on the fourth of july about a maimed sur Vior. For me stones Vietnam experience is what lies behind Juk. Vietnam is what led Stone to Kennedy he Felt that the anti Kennedy conspirators ultimately caused the asian hell that he saw. A a Juk begins with a clip of Eisenhower a attack on the military Industrial Complex and it ends with a statement of Vietnam casualties a 58,000 americans millions of asians. For Oliver Stone set on his fiery if tendentious Corpse Dealey Plaza leads to the Tonkin Gulf. A a Juk is a Fine piece of filmmaking a Kauffmann concludes. A although the proof that Kennedy was killed because of the War is very slim the film is one More outcry against the waste and horror of  not really. Outcry against the waste and the horror of Vietnam is not the reason that the Corpse of Vietnam has been reanimated. It was brought Back to life not so much to cry out against the past but to shape and influence the future. Just As in mythology those bitten by the Vampire become vampires themselves those of the Post Vietnam generation convinced by stones Devil theories will themselves perpetuate that mythology. Unfortunately there is a ready Supply of innocent nails just waiting for the vampires bite. When a High school textbook american voices a history of the United states volume ii states that the korean War was ended by dropping an atomic bomb one can Only shudder to think what is being taught about Vietnam. My own experience is not encouraging. In one recent work the legacy the Vietnam War and the american imagination edited by d. Michael Shafer Boston Beacon Presswork College professor Peter b. Levy takes Issue with a column a red badge of courage earned and ignored a los Angeles times nov. 5, 1987 in which i charged that Black civil rights a a leaders had betrayed their Black Vietnam War Battle Field Brethren. A a Summers attempts to blame Blacks themselves rather than the War which was Begotten and run by individuals like Summers misses the Point a Levy writes. Whether i missed the Point is debatable most Black civil rights a a leaders denigrated their Brethren in the persian Gulf War As Well but Levy was off entirely. When americans involvement in Vietnam was a Begotten Quot by president Truman in june 1950, i was a Corporal in the 24th inf div in route to Korea. When the War was a run a i was a Captain in a Rifle battalion in the 1st inf div in Vietnam. If Levy is so unenlightened or so Gullible to believe that a Corporal or a Captain in the . Army can beget and run a War one can Only Pray for the students entrusted to his care. The persian Gulf War dealt a near fatal blow to the a Vietnam  now its time to drive a stake through the heart of the Vietnam Vampire As Well. The traditional stake was made of Wood but this one needs to be made of knowledge scepticism and common sense. And Only you can forge it. Retired col. Ha/7 g summer or. Is a distinguished fellow of the army War College and author of the recently published on strategy ii a critical analysis Oltha persian quit War c los Angeles times Syndicate