Daily Nebraskan
Pago 5
Monday, April 26, 1982
Goodman. . .
Continued from Page 4
But instead, they have been shaken
from their comforts. They no longer
believe that the absurdity of any war, even
a "comic opera" war, is a defense against
it. They no longer regard the finality of
nuclear war as some perverse protection.
They have less faith today in leaders and
more anxiety about wars that escalate
through madness, misjudgment, mistake,
woodcnheadedness.
It was no surprise that "Ground Zero"
week was begun by a recovered "author
ity," Roger Molander. A former nuclear
strategist on the National Security Council,
he discovered firsthand how little expertise
there was.
The people above Win who were
supposed to be thinking about The Big
Questions looked to him for answers. Re
luctantly, with all too clear a sense of his
limitations, Molander became the author
ity, lie asked himself the question first
posed by a White House science adviser,
"Where are the grown-ups?"
"There was too much opportunity for
machine error, for human error, for errors
in judgments. Nuclear war," he writes now,
"could occur far more easily than people in
the White House, in Congress and in the
country at large seem to realize."
He asks us to consider what we already
know in some unconscious way. We can't
soothe ourselves with the notion that
"grown-ups" have everything under
Letters . . .
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extensive war strategy when the islands are
isolated distances away from Britain's own
geographical area and sphere of interest.
The British have always been the
world's greatest and foremost imperialists.
Their whole history is one of enslaving and
exploiting foreign lands and peoples. There
remains no land on earth Britain has not
monopolized for its advantages and de
signs. I appreciate the fact that one coun
try has the courage to confront the British
menace
The British would like to rule the whole
world if they were not restrained by the
fact that other people happen to inhabit
the earth. The British invaded India and
claimed it as a British colony and feudal
state until the Hindus expelled them for
ever from India. The British would have us
falsely believe the whole world belongs
rightfully to them.
Needless to say, the British have made
themselves an inconvenience to other
cultures that do not wish to be dominated
or intimidated by the British. This fact has
been proven in America, Africa, Indo-Chi-na
and ultimately Palestine. Britain's
claim over the Malvinas Islands is no dif
ferent than its injustice perpetrated against
other peoples over the centuries.
No, 1 don't believe the British have any
moral and political rights to the Malvinas
Islands. What one has taken by force and
conquest is thus taken by force and con-
control. We have to remember how easily
presidents and prime ministers are reduced
to childhood games: tugof-war, follow the
leader, tit for tat, button, button, who's
got the button?
This is what distinguishes this emerging
anti-nuclear movement, what fuels it. The
people who came to Ground Zero looking
for community and information and
action, question the omniscience of author
ity and accept the possibility of technologi
cal accident and human frailty.
They seem less impressed by the idea
that nuclear war would come through
deliberate aggression, World War II style.
They seem more impressed by the vision of
holocaust through blundering, posturing,
escalation, World War I style. The Falkland
Islands could be our Sarajevo.
With any luck, war can still be avoided
in the place Samuel Johnson once describ
ed as "an island thrown aside from human
use." With luck, we may see the peace that
comes when tired or frightened or thought
ful people sit down to discuss the shape of
the table.
But the Atlantic has been full of re
minders about the alternatives. How quick
ly war can break out, how stubbornly it
can escalate through miscalculation, ego,
woodenheadedness.
There is no time to negotiate when
missiles are in the air.
(c) 1982, The Boston Globe Newspaper
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quest. This situation is no different; the
principle remains: Destiny holds no guar
antees and bestows no promises to any
people and nation on earth.
Alex Wolf
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