Show ThgjJtah Statesman PnJ ALPIN SKISCACHE HONDA’S Tum6ty5 this week by Lt Col Monday November 9 1721 CONTINUING GIGANTIC 6 Farrell Kunz 0C3O SALE 30 to 50 OFF LIQUIDATION needs more US military strength is a weekly editorial in which a member of the tfkr’t ote: student or body is invited to express opinions on a topic staff USU faulty choice Lt Col Farrell Kunz is a professor at USU and her Jluer Intsssthe head of the military science department Tum-styl- dear We are obliged to The mandate of last November mm our country But let us not underestimate the difficulty of the task It goes far beyond filling the voids which exist in the as difficult as that will be United States military establishment The popular historians Will and Ariel Durant have observed In more than 3400 years of tha ‘‘war is a constant of history recorded history only 268 have seen no war Peace is an unstable which can be preserved only by acknowledged equilibrium or equal power” Yet as the United States strives to jupremacy nuintain that peace the decline in American power in just the less credible put decade has made our leadership less and And if as Clausewitz claimed power is more than the capacity to influence then our diminished strength is doubly unfortunate The unique heritage of our great democracy is the profound influence for good which the United States has had throughout the world Without exception American military power has been an instrument committed not to mean or selfish ends but to protect and preserve ideals So it has been with despair that we and our allies have watched as that power to infis luence has eroded Somehow in the period from power has been equated with which we have just emerged immorality If America would stop building weapons then perhaps the Soviets would too Not only does this reflect a totally inadequate even pitiful understanding of the Soviet Union it is dangerous daydreaming A casual appreciation of history reveals that neither weapons nor armies stan wan People start wars And people think twice about when their potential adversary is defenseless but when star-dngwa- rs heisasstrongas they are If we are to reverse the disturbing trend which we have come to accept over the past decade of — permitting military forces to grow smaller and less capable and accepting the mandates of others where our own interests are at stake — then we need two things First we need resolve Resolve that the first priority of our is to restore the United States to its position of preemninence in the free world That a clear sense of requires national purpose and the political will to carry it out Consider wme foreign policy problems in the 1960s — the Congo the Dominican Republic the Cuban Missile Crisis All were handlegovernment 2045 N Main Open 9:30 to 6:00 Mon thru Sat fsacoir "DRARD rjQLV" QUASAR HO" C©1CR Yt7 STUDORT RATOS GZ22V 82S pan rjorjTci (HO DCPOCIT) CO®! 01(0 pun niorjTu (P On DLACEX & 17C3ITC DCi?'inxnC3£ 7DDCZZO co t‘j oca rj- - d wuh resolve without ambiguity united States and our allies and in the best interests of that with our handiCompare ng of Angola Ethiopia or South Yemen Is it any wonder Raders ask openly what has happened to American socie-ty- ny t we stand up and be counted? What about our national will? Where is our resolve? Secondly we need strength We must restore the most fun-tand clearest sign of national strength — our military a level where we can once again truly control our the al These will be difficult but not impossible to accomplish due to P°Pu'ar attitudes There is once again broad tupport for a strong and effective military Drawing on tpport this administration is well alongjn carrying out an P°Iicy which wil not only redress the decline of l V restore the capability of the United States to Un nitlon i Dia J vtect its interests worldwide NEED M OBEY? twall Is— ham 110 AH ON mats r tea - W vn NO WAITMt Of VALUI Tratf ARIA'S LARCZST SXUCTIOM OF FIRXAJUU 434SSU SkRobra GaRdeo RestaaRant NEW SALAD BAR & HOT DISH0175 SPECIAL FOR TUE & WED 2 AGGIE TWISTS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE THURSDAY SMORGASBO! VARIETY OF HOT DISHES INCLUDING DEEP FRIED SHRIMP |