European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 05, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 letters to the editor wednesday january 5.1994 european edition col Stevens Hoffman Usa commander publisher Bernard a. Zovistoski editor news and editorial Deborah a incr news editor Bill Walker european editor Bob Wicker sports editor George mane City editor to write us unit 29480 Apo a 09211 orpostfach111437 64278 Darmstadt Germany news Tel fax 06155-601416 to Call us dial 06155-601 plus Extension or Dan 348-b plus Extension As follows news ext. 237,255,282,226,326. Sports ext. 225,269,263,332,321,221. Features ext. 230,245,341. Letters to editor ext. 208. Education Jimi Jones ext. 226. Business news ext. 326. News bureaus Heidelberg Germany Joseph Owen room 117. Rome rate. 104,69128 Heidelberg chm 419, Box 1318. Apo a 09102 Telephone Dan 370-7010 or civilian 06221-23421 Tel fax 06221-27239. Kaiserslautern. 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The appearance of advertising it this publication. Including inserts or supplements does not constitute endorse ment by the department of defense or the stars and stripes of the products or services advertised. Ready for sacrifice i read military life no picnic .27 and was so miffed that i had to write. Having been a military wife for six years i knew from the Day i married my husband that the military was going to play a Large part in our lives because twas my husband s Job. R have seen my husband sent away to school for two months go on Field rotations for three months to Korea for a year work Long tireless hours preparing for inspections and Deal with the Day to Day trials and tribulations that Are All part of being inthe military. My husband is a sergeant in the . Army and we both know that his pay snot that great but 1 think that Sony the word budget was invented. Its the extras that count e.g., free medical dental and Eye care commissary and Post Exchange privileges Etc. Since marrying my husband i no know what it Means to be supportive and understanding. When he studied for his promotion boards i was almost nonexistent and did t really mind because i knew in the Long run it would be Worth itto both of us. Yes we have had our share of Job related marital problems but what married couple has t military or non military Jacqueline r. Watson Dix him Germany. Live on positive Side in response to a recent letter stating military life is no picnic my husband Andi have been married and in the military for 12 years. He serves As a food service specialist and has been attached to Many rapid deployment units including the 82nd airborne div and during his assignment he served in Panama saudi Arabia and St. Croix Virgin islands. If you plan things they never turn out that Way however if you live one Day at a time you might just see that things fall into place a lot easier than if they were planned. I was upset with every deployment but the reunions after each one were very memorable and our children were told the details of his departure and each child helped the other to understand Why daddy had been gone., if you think of the positive things in Stead of the negative you la see that therein life in the military. Although the pay May not be great there is More in life that makes the world go round besides Money love peace and happiness. Is military life realty Worth it military life is Only Worth it if you live life on the positive Side. You have to learn to give a Little and thank god for what you have. Denise Mako Grafe Wohr Germany v " intolerant of boy scouts in columnist Barbara roessner s Edito rial slam of the boy scouts . 28her blatant hypocrisy has evidently clouded her reason and judgment. While she insists that everybody in her politically Correct world has a right to his her own views and lifestyles she denies that same right to the politically incorrect in this Case the boy scouts. She and her ilk having failed in the courts to make Trie boy scouts presenta ble in Liberal society have resorted to petulant foot stamping shrill name Call ing and outright twisting of the facts to achieve what they could not through the arguments of reason and objective Law. Who Are the really intolerant ones Here obviously it s is. Roessner. To my knowledge the boy scouts have never excluded any boy because of his culture and in my experience with them i can t conceive of them doing such a thing. As a private group they have the court upheld right to make their own membership rules. Why is this so hard to understand if you can t obey the rules of a free society then society takes away your membership by Locking you up. If you can t live by military rules you re Welcome to not enlist. It s the same with the scouts. Is. Roessner advocated homosexuals being in the boy scouts even As Lead ers. How would you react if you Learned that the Leader of your son s troop is Gay to each his own right what if it s your own son he s seducing on camping trips you think i m paranoid this actually happened in a scout troop my son joined. The parents of the scout and the Church continued to support the scoutmaster after learning he was Gay. At that Point we took our son to another troop where i served As a Leader. If parents won t be responsible for the influences on their own kids there Are plenty of people out there with their own Agenda ready to do it for them. Theydon t always have the child s Best inter ests at heart. The parents. And kids Are left with the results. We.  Walldorf Germany editor s note the Holiday season has produced a Short age of letters so this feature has been abbreviated. ". V a. We encourage our readers especially those who have never submitted a letter to write to us expressing viewpoints or opinions that Are published daily on this Page. All let ters must be signed and include address and Telephone number. Preference is Given to Shorter letters so that More can be published in a timely manner. We Reserve the right to edit letters for clarity length and taste. Send to letters to the editor the stars and stripes unit29480, Apo a 09211. Commentary Clinton foreign policy by Mark Matthews still smarting from self inflicted wounds president Clinton s foreign policy team enters its second year with potentially volatile rearrangement of key players and persistent questions about their Captain. No longer will it be dominated by a cohesive Core of Liberal democrats most of whom helped elect Bill Clinton. Now this group will have to share the president Stime and attention with an outsider Bobby Ray Inman a career military Man with a bipartisan congressional Power base and limited enthusiasm for his com Mander in chief. Added to the mix will be the broader role for Strobe Talbott an old Clinton Friend promoted to Deputy Secretary of state and vice president Al Gore s greater visibility As a foreign policy spokesman which will inevitably increase his Power internally. While not a wholesale shake up these changes will after How policy is made. They were triggered by events in octo Ber that taken together May compare historically with John f. Kennedy s Bay of pigs fiasco. In october the administration reversed course on Somalia after 18 . Rangers were killed and pull edits forces away from Haiti s shores after they were threatened by a mob. The twin debacles sent Clinton s approval ratings plunging and his advisers into a Blue Funk. Secretary of defens Eles Aspin never regained the Trust of the president or Congress. The reshuffled team seems out Wardly Collegia but has t yet been tested by fire. More important will below As a group it plays to the president s strengths and curbs his weaknesses. A sense of confusion about defining and pursuing centrally important nation Al interests is the most troubling aspect of the Clinton foreign policy at the one earmark Paul d. Wolfowitz Dean of the Johns Hopkins school of advanced International studies wrote in the january Issue of foreign affairs. Wolfowitz served As an ambassador and defense undersecretary in the Reagan and Bush administrations. Bosnia Somalia and Haiti continue Rostand out because each exposed inadequacies in confronting new kinds of Post cold War problems. In Bosnia it was aggression against a newly recognized coun try in Somalia attacks on . Forces and in Haiti collapse of an infant neigh Boring democracy. In each Case Clinton talked Tough and then backed away when action proved militarily and politically difficult. The administration now dismisses these As regional problems. But Wolfowitz argues that such a dismissal misses the Point that the ability of the United states to use Force effectively wherever it decides to do so is itself a major interest of this country and is the foundation of the substantial miliary stability among the major Powers that the world enjoys  what s More such failures Point tothe absence of an Overall administration strategy for dealing with a Range of emerging problems that seriously threaten american Security ethnic conflict the breakup of fragile nations and weapons proliferation among rogue  the new year dawns Clinton and his revamped team still have to prove that they re up to the Job. C the Baltimore Sun mr.hik68aumtd review thi5anp Cau atju5vc&. Afka a so. Thanks. Cohen v &zr7h&0i66uy ing up you Looka Duful tout Nat pythzujw.,