European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 18, 1994 commentary the stars and stripes Page 19 . Train Here is my secret plan to Avert a flood of haitian refugees seeking political Asylum to reassert the credibility of american Power in our sphere of influence and to bring parliamentary democracy to the hemispheres most oppressed nation a All without the use of . Ground troops. A can to be done you say certainly it will not be done by following the increased Asylum plan president Clinton announced this month. Concocted to Lessen criticism from Black leaders in the United states his plan is to a impose an economic blockade to make civilian haitians miserable enough to rebel against the army b pick up refugees at sea for interviews aboard . Ships thereby encouraging William Safire More to seek political Asylum cd but turning Back the majority As. Economic migrants and c make veiled military threats with no intention of or support for carrying them out. Tha East element of the Clinton approach pre tend Efto flex military muscle a was expressed last week a the most Nail nibbling pusillanimous a a threat Ever uttered by a president or the United states a a we Are doing our Best to avoid dealing with the military  y. A a a a Quot a \ a a a a a Clinton a entreaties to the haitian general and police chief fall on deaf ears because no real military threat exists. Quot a. A. ,1 a a a a a expending . Lives to save Haiti ranks Low on the poll ratings that drive Clinton foreign policy. Needed is a counterforce that does not now exist. Quot my plan is known As a the Bay of pigs  three decades ago that place became synonymous with the word  the Cia secretly trained a military Force of cuban refugees in Florida and transported them to a cuban Beach to help topple Fidel Castro. But when the decision came to provide the invading Force the close support of air cover. President Ken Nady flinched local uprisings never materialized and the anti Castro cuban patriots were killed or captured. Worse than a tragedy it was an embarrassment. Just because the intervention spawned in the Eisenhower administration failed dismally then however does not mean that the notion of retaking an Island by arming a Force of its refugees can never work. We can learn from past tactical mistakes. Where the Bay of pigs was a secret Enterprise run by Cia Covert operatives who knew Little about military operations the haitian legion should be widely publicized its training and equipment a Challenge to the department of defense. Of the nearly 200,000 haitian refugees already in the United states could not a few thousand Able bodied Young men be found to Volunteer to fight for their country. A. A a a Quot i suspect there Are More than that Many patriots among them and that a Given the training and equipment a serious substantial Force could be assembled. A by. A a a y. A a a. Every american who went from soft draftee to Soldier in three months of Basic training knows the transformation is possible. Add to that three months for development of natural leaders into noncommissioned officers with simultaneous indoctrination of democratic procedures and by years end offshore haitians would have a proud fierce Battle ready unit a better equipped and trained than Haiti a. Then you put them on . Warships backed up by an aircraft Carrier loaded with helicopter gunships sad into port a Prince a and see what Al fact All that has on the band of hoodlums on the Dock who chased us away before / even if the haitian Junta shows up with a larger armed Force the sight of oncoming Landing Craft backed up by an overwhelming show of tactical air Power would contribute to a new willingness by the tin Norn generals to restore democracy and hold new elections supervised by the organization of american states. A. A a y. By. A a the object is to avoid a bloodletting with a credible show of Force a and not a Yankee Force in front but a haitian legion ready to fight and equally trained to form a disciplined Post crisis constabulary this plan will stress the Pentagon and is not foolproof care must be taken to see that the legionnaires do not become a new Junta. But it would instill Pride and self Reliance reverse the refugee flow and generate popular bipartisan support. Y a a a y a a y a what a the. Clinton alternative Ever More refugees a fiasco. A. C now York Timos a  head squashed Quayle sprouts right up Dan Quayle a Only complaint about life just now concerns the noisy owl that swoops past the House before Dawn. However his new Book standing firm which is the beginning of his political comeback attempt expresses retrospective complaints that should but will not trouble those he complains about. On the either hand the Book will please those he most wants to please the conservatives who make up the Republican nominating electorate. If George Bush had not chosen Quayle in 1988, Quayle would be a leading contender for the 1996 Republican nomination. In 1980, at age 33, after two terms in the House he won a Senate seat by handily beating a former democratic presidential candidate Birch Bayh. In 1986, he was re elected with 61 percent of the vote the highest percentage Ever for an Indiana senator and continued to build a creditable Senate record on both foreign and Domestic issues. But in the sudden Glare of National attention at the 1988 convention he seemed strangely unformed. His soft voice his Blond Boyish Ness even his normality made him seem unserious. Although most of the recent sentimentality about Richard Nixon was synthetic there was this dismal sincerity Many americans assume that neuroses like Nixon s Are evidence of gravitas. In 1988, the Media rushed to a con George f. Will tempt Ous judgment about Quayle but no quicker than did some of Bush a operatives those hollow technicians of empty politics who went on to squander the legacy handed to them by Ron Aid Reagan another. Man deficient of neuroses. James Baker put Quayle in a cocoon of aides who emulated the disdain that Baker did not disguise toward Quayle. Wily were the Media so hysterically hostile beginning with the absurd a a reporting of Quayle a service in the National guard Quayle believes Young journalists could tolerate a Bush or Reagan who reminded them of their fathers but could not abide a conservative their own age who might  National figure for years. The first baby Boomer on a National ticket was not supposed to be someone conservative enough to have voted for Reagan against Gerald Ford in the 1976 Indiana primary. As part of the a pampered be ahead image the Media called him a the $600 million  actually although some Day he will Benefit by a lot less than that from a family Trust he says that in 1988 his net Worth including his House was $854,000. Quayle had grown up As others did , ind. But the pleasures of condescension Are intense As they must have been for the journalist who preening his intellectual superiority to Quayle called him a super Rich super tanned and about As smart As a  Quayle believes the Bush adminis Lra lion began to crumble before it began a in december 1988, when the president elect a advisers began pushing for a tax increase. Quayle rigidly says that by 1992, Bush was using Michael Dukakis play Book from 1988, assuming that the election was about a competence not ideology a but that is As close As Quayle comes to saying a discouraging word about Bush. Such loyalty is admirable but is incompatible with a serious contribution to political understanding. Quayle notes approvingly that when a Magazine characterized Bush a White House As an a idea free zone a Bush cited in his defense the clean air act and the americans with disabilities act. But those were two vast inflation of the regulatory state. Quayle cites Bush a inaugural statement that the nation has a More will than Wallet As proof that a bold Domestic initiatives were not possible. But since when do conservatives equate boldness with spending Quayle has a truly bold Agenda from school Choice through term limits that does not require much a Wallet a his Book will not Embarrass those who by their egregiously unfair treatment of him proved themselves to Lack the on de standing requisite for embarrassment therefore the Hook should have been less retrospective and More an occasion for him to present his seriousness unmediated by the Media. For example with his Murphy Crown speech in which Brown was mentioned in just one sentence he was prematurely right in raising the most important Domestic Issue of the 1990s, illegitimacy. But we still await his analysis of precisely How Public policy is relevant to that either As cause or cure. That subject and others will presumably be the stuff of his coming presidential Campaign during w hich the Hook makes Clear his rivals for the Republican nomination will be hard pressed to gel to his right people who dismiss his chances have not contemplated the Republican nominating electorate it is conservative it detests the Media and it is highly seasoned by the activists who saw much of Quayle in his vice presidential party building travels. / with those folks As with Many others familiarity with Quayle has bred fond. Ness