| OCR Text |
Show WESTERN AMERICANA Volume 2 No. 10 HI AS By General Thomas A. Lane WASHINGTON . 250 Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 . . Peace is not merely the absence of war: it FO RSAKEN PEACE ? AMERICA respected and admired by men. It is the gift of God. In his day, Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote that Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Of course! June 11, 1971 Men of mean spirit marshal the destructive power of fear to impose on our people the expedient compromise with eyil. is a condition of the human spirit. Through their design, peace Those who would demean the In the 18th century England, becomes an exploitation of the human spirit to avoid war are con- patriotism was esteemed as an instinct to flee from danger. Like fusing peace with cowardice. Let attribute of honorable men. It jackrabbits running into the headit be clear in this holy season that was inevitable that knaves of the lights of an oncoming car, nations they have no communion with day would seek to hide their skuldominated by fear assure their the Prince of Peace. duggery under a mask of patriotown destruction. They are led by The followers of Jesus offered ism. men who cry peace. In like manner today, scoundtheir lives to bear witness to His The Prince of Peace showed us rels and their conceal cowardice truth. Did they find peace in that peace can be won only following Him, even unto violent corruption behind a mask of through uncompromising dedicadeath? Imbed they did. They peace. They pose sanctimontion to truth. Only by scaling the found that peace of the spirit iously as advocates of peace while heights of spirituality can mansacrifice which He had promised to them. they meanly every prinkind put an end to human strife. Peace is the nobility of the ciple of honorable behavior and Today, however, many- of His civilizaweaken fiber the of our reached steadfast through spirit followers aver that strife is to be devotion to truth. It is superior to tion. Their appeal is to fear. avoided by compromise with evil. Fear is an emotion. an instinct, all materia blandishments. Accommodation is their watchis in It us to Because it marks the higjiest protective alerting word. They condone the enslavereach of the human spirit, it has in danger, but it can be destructive if ment of captive peoples, ignore all ages and among all people beer it is not controlled by reason. the slaughter of innocent millions - who have been victims of pretensions of peace, encourages extenuate the the enemy to expand and prolong communist terror waged against the war. Leaders of both parties unoffending peasants and seek mock principle, preach expedialogue, with barbaric tyrants. diency and advocate accomThese are the works not of modation as the avenue to peace. charity but of cowardice. What Instead of repelling forthrightly blasphemy it is to claim they are the communist aggression from works of peace! North Vietnam and summarily Greater love hath no man winning the war, they cripple than this, that he lay down his life South Vietnam with restrictions for his friends. In Vietnam on its rights of self defense, restriadvanced in the today, our youth arc called to ctions cynically make this sacrifice for their name of peace. com-munis- m, friends in freedom, the valient people of South Vietnam. They Pretensions of peace which are the magic of politics are the mask of cowardice and the poison of nations. Until men come again to regard peace as an elevation of the human spirit achieved through man'a 'xmquest of fear, they will know no peace. Jesus showed us offer their arms, their skills, their strength in service to a just cause. They are our men of peace. They are in communion with the Prince of Peace. Tragically, these honorable the way, but we have not men are betrayed by national . leadership which, through . followed Him. BLUE IRIBBON DEFENSE PANEL REPORT The Soviet Union has been on Atomic Energy recently characterized as having particular constitutes half significance the framework from which to objectively view the current Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). The other half of the negotiating picture is the lack of U.S. activity in the area of stra- ballistic missile force threefold, while the U.S. has not increased its force levels in these categories one iota. This fact seems to have been lost in the semantic shuffle. Some people have confused the tegic weapons deployment.- To use Secretary of Defense Laird's words, we are in a state of almost moratorium and have been since 1967. The SALT talks began with a warheads on making a massive effort , out of all proportion to i s own resources or any external threat , to acquire and extend strategic nuclear superiority over the U.S.its record of feverish military preparation is unequaled since preliminary meeting between the U.S. and Soviet delegations at Blue Ribbon Defense limitation of U.S. and Soviet strategic weapons deployment; to repeat a cliche, to end the arms This description of Soviet race. The fact is that there is no arms race. Since 1967 the Soviet Union has more than tripled its IGBM forces and increased its submarine-launche- d Hitler . Report, ... Panel efforts', contained in the Supplemental Report of the PresidentiallyBlue Ribbon -appointed Defense Panel a report, incidentally, which the Joint Committee Helsinki, Finland in November 1969, and have continued intermittently for the last 18 months. The stated objective of the talks is to reach an enforceable agree- ment providing for a mutual modernization of our forces, (e.g. the installation of multiple, inde- pendently targetable vehicles MIRV our Minuteman Poseidon land-base- re-ent- ry and d submarine-launche- d missiles) with the action-re-actio- n, where will it all end, arms race spiral. As a study prepared by the Pepperdine Research Inst- itute pointed out several years ago, Force modernization is not an arms race. Failure to engage in force modernization is destabilizing. The major incentive to engage in a nuclear arms race is the possibility of winning it. In a world of technological secrecy, failure to engage in force modernization is clearly destabilizing. MIRVing (adding more warheads to existing missiles) of a limited low megatonnage missile force such as ours, is simply an attempt to offset the growth of Soviet counterforce weapons so that our forces remaining after a Soviet first strike will hopefully have enough warheads remaining to assure penetration of an expanmissile ding Soviet anti-ballist- ic system. It is an attempt to deny the Soviets a first strike capability - defined as the capability of lowering the U.S. retaliatory forces below some acceptable threshold through the use of counterforce and ballistic missile defense. MIRV, coupled with anti-ballist- ic missile defense, is aimed at nothing more than maintaining a second strike capability. That these procedures, although absolutely necessary, are by themselves of limited efficacy in coping with the growing threat, was confirmed recently by Secretary of Defense Laird when he alluded to the possibility of added Minuteman and other items that we may have to face up to in view of Soviet momentum. The SALT talks are not interfering with this Soviet momentum and in fact are increasing relative Soviet momentum as we restrain ourselves in hopes of an agreement. The only substantial Soviet offer emanating so far from the talks has been a proposal to mutually limit anti-ballist- ic missile systems t the D.C. and Moscow Washiiigton, areas respectively. Acceptance of this offer would mean that the U.S. would stop building the SAFEGUARD ABM system (designed to protect our Minute-ma- n forces) which the Soviets are rapidly acquiring the capability to destroy, while at the same time allowing the Soviets to continue deploying their ABM around the Moscow area. The Soviets are not building an ABM system to protect their hardened missile fields for the perfectly sensible reason that the U.S. missile force does not have the combined ratio necessary to destroy hardened silos. The latest shouts of triumph in the last several weeks, about progress at SALT, concerned nothing more than a Soviet agreement to talk about possibly slowing their crash construction of strategic offensive missiles. They did not agree to stop building these yield-accura- cy Continued on Page 12 TH UTAH INDEPENDENT. Second P.O. Box 6274 Salt L ake City, Utah 8406 - Serials Order Department Utah of Libraries University Salt take City, Utah 84112 at 873 Clo$S Salt Lake Postage City; Paid Utah |
