European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday december 23. 1992 rnuiifiit�m<--1 -----1. Commentary i the stars and stripes a Page 13 Vietnam offers useful lesson to peacekeepers the Herr Nitt 1,0 a 1_______ i Harry 6. Summers the precedent has now been set. The United ski i t"1drvele Abr of t0 provide humanitarian Relief while president Bush has said that in Somalia our efforts will be to a create a secure environment for the movement of Relief supplies not to a dictate political outcomes the reality is that to be effective in the Ong term we May have to strengthen or even rebuild the local political infrastructure. Although forgotten today that a what our original Vietnam involvement was All about. A there is an urgent need to strengthen Vietnam a political institutions a said the Washington Post in april 1961, and new and trendy counterinsurgency theories focused on that very task. A the fundamental purpose of . Military Force a said the army a doctrinal manuals a is to preserve restore or create an environment of order and stability within which the instrumental ties of. Government can function effectively under a code of  although lip service was Given to the non military dimensions of the War it became obvious that by temperament and by training . Military units were ill suited for such operations. In 1967, two years after . Ground troops were first committed to Battle a new organization civil operations and revolutionary development support was created to Deal with the wars political economic and social dimensions. Headed initially by ambassador Robert w. Komer who was also appointed As Gen. William c. Westmoreland a Deputy commander the organization was composed of personnel from the state department the Agency for International development the . Information Agency and the Central intelligence Agency. It also had a military component to provide Security and logistic support. Unified civil military advisory teams were deployed to All of South Vietnam a 250 districts and 44 provinces. It was one of the most successful innovations of the Vietnam War ensuring that . Economic Aid was properly distributed and enormously improving the infrastructure of the South vietnamese government. Overshadowed by the fall of South Vietnam to the 1975 Multi division North vietnamese Cross Border invasion those successes were soon forgotten and the lessons of How to provide for the nonmilitary aspects of conflict were never Learned. Now those lessons need to be resurrected and re Learned. If the United states is to continue in the humanitarian intervention business it cannot continue to pull its military away from its primary tasks without seriously weakening the country a National Security. As air Force it. Col. Charles e. Dunlap or. Argued in his recent essay the origins of the american military coup of 2012, a Ami litanies ought to a prepare for War and leave the a peace waging to those agencies of the government whose Mission is just  the problem is such agencies do not now exist. To a wage peace we need to create a new and expanded peace corps under the department of state. Like the organization in Vietnam it should be headed by a civilian an ambassador level foreign service officer to emphasis its nonmilitary charter. The peace corps director should report directly to the Secretary of state who would coordinate the Agency a International Relief activities with the National Security Council. And like the organization in Vietnam the majority of its personnel should also be civilian including political and economic experts from state Aid Relief workers Usia communication specialists and other such  president elect Clinton Scall Jor a new program of National service could be incorporated into this new peace corps As Well. Young volunteers could elect to serve As Relief workers abroad in return for College tuition. The military would provide such backup assistance As might be required including moving the Relief teams and their supplies into position and providing continuing logistical and other support. Today for example . Army language qualified special operations personnel Are deployed in peacekeeping operations around the world. Security forces would be provided As needed to guard against hostile attack. But As with the organization in Vietnam the military would be in a subordinate role. And that a important. . Military intervention abroad even in the name of humanitarian Aid raises Host nations fears for their sovereignty and Independence. A new peace corps would ease such misperception. If we re going to be the worlds Nanny we at least ought to do it right. C the los Angelos times a Welcome to town for activist Hillary Clinton i still get a laugh and a warm feel ing when i recall Eleanor Roosevelt a Secretary Malvina Tommy Thompson telling me one of her favorite stories about that most warmhearted of All first ladies. At the depth of the despair of the great depression Roosevelt received a letter about allegedly horrible conditions in a West Virginia jail. She took off immediately for a personal investigation. When president Roosevelt came to lunch he asked gruffly a a where a the Madam a a ooh she a in the jail in West Virginia a Thompson replied somewhat absentmindedly. A jail in West Virginia a mumbled for. A what the hell has she done now a Hillary Clinton wont become first lady until Jan. 20, but the pundits and politicians already Are asking a what the hell is she going to do next a Washington is in a no news do drum so there Isnit much to do except sit around speculating about whether Hillary Clinton is going to be a a co president a a a silent partners or a sexy Chick who runs America through a Pillow  Carlt. Rowan i hear one pundit declaring that he a never voted for Hillary and wanted none of her influences yet another one shouting a you knew that she and Bill Clinton came  it would All be ridiculous if the role of the first lady were not so important. I have written earlier about the importance of getting the racial and class Poison out of the american bloodstream. Sometimes the wife of a president can do More to achieve that than the president himself. When Detroit was ripped apart by terrible race riots Eleanor Roosevelt went to that City to speak at the a act convention a to lend her name and the prestige of the White House to the cause of racial Justice. Hillary Clinton remembers i Hope that millions of americans did want Eleanor Roosevelt to stay on Pennsylvania Avenue and pass out cookies and Tea. When she insisted upon being a Force for social change enemies called her a Madame gadabout and a the first nuisance of the  Hillary Clinton is very much like Eleanor Roosevelt in that she has great intellect has shown a deep sense of compassion for the needy the abused the underdogs of this society. If Hillary Clinton becomes the activist first lady that most who know her expect she will Shell get assailed in the Media Psychoanal Zed by nutty journalists who have no License and called names As bad As those hurled at Eleanor Roosevelt. The Oval office i t Jan agy 2o, but America needs an activist Hillary Clinton. I just Hope she remembers that after All the insults Eleanor Roosevelt became revered As a lady big heart a consistently voted the a most admired woman in the  Eleanor Roosevelt made America a better place. An activist Hillary Clinton demonstrating the values and Virtues of this nations racial and ethnic diversity can give us a fairer and Richer society. I done to care How soft the Pillow or How Long the talk i say a Welcome to this troubled town  c North America synd Caio