Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 28, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free september 1981 no War for Europe by William Pfaff special to the free press Paris attempt to murder general Frederick com Mander in chief in West is More significant than a simple Recrudescence of with other re cent attacks upon americans and american bases in it taites place against a background of severe rioting in Berlin during Secretary of state Alexander Haigs and a notable Rise in ant american this is something which cannot be dismissed As merely marginal the protest of inconsequential in West Germany the new generation has few memories of americans As these Young people a View of americans As oppressors in Vietnam and Central they see the United states today As sponsor of nuclear rearmament in West and of a new Western mobilization against the soviet Haig is perfectly Correct when he says that these people apply a double treating the United states As if it were an aggressive Power in ignoring soviet indifferent to the Manifest differences in political Quality Between the two but these Young people Are also acting out a larger Public disquiet in West and in Western Europe As a current nato Security policy has come increasingly to seem beside the the Security Issue the question of the defence of today has about it a Quality of of lost links with the reality of the present who is going to launch a major War in Europe today Why who can possibly imagine that anything would be gained by attacking the other Side both the and nato nonetheless continue to and to As if an attack by the other Side made there is a real danger in this because a dynamism is at work which is Cut off from its historical a strategic nuclear attack by the soviet Union upon the United or by the upon the could be argued at least to possess some Given a convincing scenario for first strike to unscrupulous Lead a great Many problems might seem solvable through a no More enemies to worry unchecked Power Over whatever is strange love could sleep easily at assuming that he had no con and for a truly modern represents an unquantifiable residue of the superstitious a vestigial Tail upon any civilization based on dialectical materialism or scientific there is no equivalent scenario for conquering Europe in an finishing off the enemy for War in Europe would mean great tank waged through the interlocking Urban sprawls of Nort Central Europe City fighting of a kind soldiers with an ambush every building after building to be cleared or blown a scenario of european War also presents fateful branching Points where tactical nuclear weapons May be and retaliated against those and cruise missiles Over which controversy goes on the civilian populations of the superpowers would meanwhile re Gard this spectacle with Antici Pating the hour at which the tactical Battle would become a strategic Bat and for what the soviet Union has nothing to gain from an attack upon Western Europe which would justify the accompanying risk to the very survival of the soviet Union that part of Europe already controlled by the is Burden enough upon russian a Drain on its political and often an economic Drain As the soviet Union stays in Eastern Europe for simple the principal one being thanks to the second world it already is if it were to it fears or would enter in its but the risks of extending this zone of political and military Security another 500 Miles through to the or on to the pyrenees and the Meriter Are horrendously incalculable but certainly very the Western Powers have no one could gain from a War in yet East and West continue to Arm As if one was Likely to happen it could happen by to gain from the military liberation of Eastern Europe that could remotely compare with what they would pay to accomplish soviet predominance in Eastern Europe in any Case was conceded by the United states and the West european Powers As Long Altfas the hungarian rising in before it was possible for the soviet Union seriously to believe the West meant to overthrow soviet it certainly was possible for europeans and americans to see in stains soviet Russia an and expansionist the soviet Union of Leonid Brezhnev still has ambitious claims to but that it is a revolutionary Power is doubtful and it has proved itself anything but yet the military buildup in Central Europe goes on today As if nothing had changed since the 1940s and to a cosmic there might be something blackly comic in so much wealth spent to forestall attacks which neither Side has any interest in but then farce sometimes topples Over into trag and All this and All these could imaginable be swept up into a terrible adventure which no one wanted at into some thing that got out of soviet inva Sion of for westerners who want to see negotiated change in this dangerous situation concentrate today on arms but it takes political change for serious arms limitation to become possible As the Reagan administration wants to arms the possibilities for political change Are persistently peace in Europe has been secured for 35 years now by military it is time to talk about How political safeguards might be put in the place of these and the old system has been allowed to go on too and its foundations Are Dan Reagan gives inspiration to americans Only it seems Jerry head Mullah of the moral was widely believed to be carrying about in his pocket a hit list for god which included the american television networks that the networks purged from their act pro Grams promoting violence or treating sex As just another four letter a though More secular Orga the National association for the advancement of conservative not to be confused with the National association for the Advance ment of coloured announced its intention to dispatch gunslingers with Money to bring Down Liberal members of the such As Ted the next time they went to the in the confusion following Ronald reagans sweeping Victory last no the a Guries appeared to Sug Gest the american right would become quickly ascendant while the libertarian having had its Bell Well would go hastily the wave of the future would be the likes of the moral majority and the leaving the political left to write the history of its glorious nothing if not rushed into the streets embracing policemen and offer ing Public prayers for a balanced Bud liberals whispered darkly of a coming age of repression civil libertarians girded loins and cranked up their but nothing has happened at least not yet although some things did happen in this cooled the fevers of americas political and moral television remains yielding Only to american which Are called rat Kennedy is As Safe As a in As Are his Liberal col leagues save Only for their advancing age and the obsolescence of their As much can be said of the Man who has done As much As Dalton Camp any to Cool out the right is Reagan using the Powers of influence that come with the presidency and sending messages to zealous militants by symbolic there was an assist from Billy Graham from his summoned americas congregations Back to Church and away from the Lay precincts of Billy spoke squarely to the american constr whatever else his and nothing could have been said by anyone else to remind parishioners of the pit Falls to be found too late in politics than by the Man who had himself been burned by Richard american presidents Are presumed to set the National Agenda but they also establish the National a year the american mood was one of where it was not it is somehow As reagans National Agenda May be for the Birds but he has brought to the office redemptive Quali ties of and a Resolute Goodwill which have served to raise the spirits of most of his constituents and the level of political debate in the we As a now enjoying a spate of probing criticism of the Reagan so the most persistent complaint is against his unfailing civility and imperturbable if found in a Liber Al would be perceived As As to the substance of his 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