European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 20, 1994i commentary the stars and stripes As . Deals with Haiti William Safire after the president addressed the nation about his need to make Good on his Stream of threats to the haitian Junta after partisans in Congress do their Mutual somersaults on the War Powers act after we Hail a Victory Over a Pipsqueak principality in a War of nerves or forces then a real foreign policy crisis will have to be faced. The bosnian clock now stands at one month to Midnight. Being put to the test is the credibility of nato and the strength of the new relationship Between the United states and Russia. Much Good diplomatic work has been done. The United states brokered the renewal of the Alliance Between Bosnia a muslims and croats to strike a balance of Power and a division of territory with the bosnian serbs. After a shaky Start the marriage is solidifying which shores up the victims of serbian aggression. Meanwhile the economic squeeze put on Belgrade has had the desired effect of splitting the serbs. Belgrade is now willing to accept monitors to watch Serbia Cut off Aid to its rogue compatriots in Bosnia in return for a . Lifting of sanctions against Serbia. That isolates the local aggressors. The Only trouble its not working. The bos serbs refuse to accept the peace Deal that the United nations persuaded their victims to Swallow. They snipe at civilians murder . Soldiers and threaten to shoot Down the Popes plane if he visits besieged Sarajevo. Their goal is never to Compromise but to conquer and  thus has the world Learned that the Way to make peace with the bos serbs is to put guns to their Heads. But the United nations has embargoed the Sale of guns to bosnian. That leaves the Well armed aggressors with the firepower advantage. President Clinton has been unable to persuade the British and French who have peacekeeping troops in Bosnia to lift the embargo and even up the Power balance. They prefer to dither than to Hunker Down or get out. In effect they Are a a protecting the muslims out of their country. It a Clinton a impotence with our allies led the Senate to propose a and the president to embrace in an aug. 10 letter to Sam Nunn an ultimatum with a deadline. A if the bosnian serbs have hot accepted the Contact groups proposal of july 6, 1994. By october 15, 1994,�?� reads the Senate a amendment to the defense appropriation Bill not yet voted on by the House a the president should formally introduce and support a Resolution in the . Security Council. To terminate the internal final arms Embar v if that . Proposal is vetoed says the Senate the president should submit a plan to lift the embargo by ourselves Clinton a letter would not go beyond pledging to seek a vote on a multilateral termination of the embargo. The clock has been ticking. On sept. 28, Boris Yeltsin arrives for his fifth Clinton Summit. That meetings Success depends on Clinton a ability to persuade the russian president to support the . Resolution to Arm the bosnian defenders. The two have worked Well together before Clinton helped Yeltsin make a Deal with Ukraine to give up its nukes and the russian kept his word to pull troops out of the Baltic. Moscow has been helpful with Belgrade now comes the crunch. _ a new York times editorial suggests linking the lifting of economic sanctions on Belgrade to the lifting of the arms embargo on Bosnia. Good idea that would enable the russians to go along and put the Issue to Britain a John major and Frances edouard Balladur who wants to veto the . Resolution such a veto would split the Atlantic Alliance invite a Radical draw Down of . Troops in Europe and undermine what would be left of nato after its failure in Bosnia. That would be an isolationists dream brought about by the intransigence of the bos serbs compounded by the shortsightedness of major and Balladur. But the British and French Are not so foolish  vote with us and withdraw their allies and level the Field of fire in Bosnia peacekeepers Selling the bosnian their Success in such High stakes diplomacy on site equipment. Would be remembered Long after the if Clinton is steadfast a rejecting the Brouhaha in Haiti is forgotten. Defeatist counsel of general Shilly Shally and the Cia a he can bring along the c new York times won War on Ion and lost suddenly like a Tornado that approaches unexpectedly values Are the hottest political Issue. Within 24 hours recently president Clinton and former vice president Dan Quayle delivered speeches on values or More precisely the absence of them in modern America. A a a. Quayle revisited the site of his Murphy Brown speech two years ago where he reiterated Many of the ideas he expressed then and added that blame for the a poverty of values should be fixed on the �?T60s and the baby Boom generation of which he and Clinton Are such prominent members. The president speaking in a new Orleans Church also bemoaned the loss of personal and cultural values. Both men correctly noted that government cannot fill the void. The effect that Banning some a assault weapons will have on crime is debatable. The effect on culture from the assault on our souls is not. Call it the ultimate giant sucking sound As we witness fatherless children shooting each other. Is this the death rattle of a once great nation the jewish theological Seminary of America took out a full Page and in the new York times to bemoan the growing moral wasteland. A was a society a the and stated a a we be just about Given up expecting people to take personal responsibility for what they do from Petty misconduct to abusive talk to drunk driving to family violence to mass murder the fault lies beyond the doer of the  the United states is becoming european Zed which is to say totally secularized in its Public institutions and increasingly in the private lives of a majority of its citizens. The French government has banned the wearing of Muslim head scarves in Public schools asserting that the practice violates a tradition of secular education. The United states of course has banned prayer and the posting of the ten commandments in our schools. The War against religion and the higher values and benefits it brings to a nation a values and benefits we now wish we had in greater abundance a has brought us to our present moment. We cannot say we weren to warned. In addition to the ready availability of what once was considered a biblical truth a politicians writers and philos pliers have issued warnings of their own. George Washington said a let us with caution  bulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever May be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of Peculiar Structure reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious  viewing the coming secularism of Europe two centuries ago Edmund Burke wrote a the age of chivalry is gone. That of Sophi sters economists and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.�?�. In the Brothers Karamazov Feodor Dostoevsky wrote that a if god does not exist everything is  that is precisely the Point where America has arrived a Point in which outrageous behaviour is bemoaned but tolerated and those who seek to impose constraints from without and develop them within Are challenged As puritanical threats to the misread and misinterpreted Constitution. Cal Thomas the very ideas and beliefs that could save us arc still rejected and put Down As anti intellectual unconstitutional simplistic and unworkable despite the historical record. While both the president and Dan Quayle Are right to caution that government s Power to restore our lost values is limited there is much that government can do to Stop assisting the moral rot. Speeches Arentt enough. If we say we want a generation of hopeful Young people the president schoolteachers the entertainment Industry and All the rest of us must give them something to Hope for. And Here i think is where Quayle excelled. He said a a. Something is missing amid All our affluence some common ethical code that could set a Clear Standard for behaviour that could Tell us what is and what is not acceptable conduct. We Are still living in Large measure with the consequences of what was taught and filmed and recorded  ago when we seemed to be building a Brave new world a or at least a great society. Back then values were something to rebel against not embrace. The recent anniversary of Woodstock was a reminder of just How far out of control we  politicians will try to capture the values Agenda for themselves but ultimately on in individuals can do that. What we need is another great Awakening a simultaneous a coming to our  neither princes nor Kings nor presidents have that be weft Only god does and americans steady moral decline can be traced to the moment we collectively decided to turn our backs on him. C los Angeles Timos