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News
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Tuesday, July 31,2018
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Opinion
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Strengthening Allies and Combating Adversaries in Europe
not morally
Russia has deployed in Central and Eastern
grate cybersecurity into NATO tral pillar of western security in
trusted. These egregious actions operations,
o
side benefit of the State Representative
chore. Aunt Pol-
ly's higher pur-
Europe. The NATO members
had agreed in 2014 to spend at
least 2 percent of gross domes-
tic product on their militaries by
2024, and President Trump
maintains an unwavering expec-
tation that our NATO allies meet
their obligation and carry their
share of the security burden.
The alliance also agreed to inte-
Coming out of the summit
meeting with the Russian lead-
David
Perryman
the years ahead through coop-
eration with our allies in Europe
and firm actions to counter our
adversaries.
western end strength.
Vladimir Putin and the men
and women serving in our intel-
Seeing
Through the
Whitewash
SunluyLl• tek U(2B
riors. were able to manage a
working relationship and their
Despite much controversy and
reporting surrounding the U.S.
- Russia summit in Helsinki,
Finland. America's foreign poli-
cy with Russia under President
ligence agencies are
equivalent. Putin's
pose was keeping her dead sister's son on the
straight and narrow toward eternal salvation and
as the U.S. intelligence commu-
nity. continue to highlight Rus-
sia's propaganda and interfer-
ence in domestic political pro-
cesses around the world. NATO
Trump’s Administration has alliance members must have the
been stronger than the previous capability to respond to mali-
three administrations. But as the cious cyber-attacks and to coun-
moving forward
4A
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
UUsbilNiLil
TOM COLE
enhancement of collective
defense and deterrence of the
alliance, improve military readi-
ness and reinforce NATO troops
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invaded two neighboring coun-
tries, illegally seized Crimea,
cooperated with a brutal dicta-
torship in Syria, and tried to
destabilize democratic regimes
around the world. The Putin
regime was involved in the mur-
der of critics and defectors at
home and on foreign soil. Clear-
ly, neither Vladimir Putin nor
the regime he heads can be
must be countered at every turn, with a cyberspace operations
Findings by the House Com- center in Belgium and to stand-
mittee on Intelligence, as well up a “Joint Force Command
United States continues to fight ter Russia.
the advances of Russian aggres- This past month, leaders from
sion. the North Atlantic Treaty the 29-member states of NATO
Organization (NATO) is being held a summit at the NATO
strengthened by the joint actions headquarters in Brussels, Bel-
of the U.S. and its allies. Presi- gium, to convene on military
dent Trump has taken a strong and security measures between
approach to encourage our its respective alliances. The
NATO allies to increase their scope of the summit expressed
forces and invest further to build the essential need to support the
historically
__________ current events through a historical lens
SPEAKING
Dr. James Finck, USAD History Professor
Presidential Summits
off the road to ruin and clear of the temptations
of “Old Scratch.”
In the end, while the fence wound up with
three coats of whitewash. Tom had engaged his
wit, his guile and a healthy dose of reverse psy-
chology to manipulate a veritable army of con-
temporaries into trading treasures and trinkets
for a turn with the brush. Mark Twain allows
that if Tom hadn't run out of whitewash, his
entrepreneurial efforts, "would have bankrupted
every boy in the village.
The reality of the situation was that if Aunt
Polly had known just how her nephew had made
the fence splendid, the shine of the pickets
would most certainly have not justified Tom s
trickery. Aunt Polly’s estimate would have been
that the end did not justify the means.
Moral and ethical principles exist in every
area of life. They are the concepts at the core of
human interaction and illuminate the substance
of our souls. Living in a goal oriented society
such as ours often makes mere survival a daily
moral encounter in which we are tempted with
abandoning our character.
The ethical dilemma of allowing "the ends to
justify the means" is that it allows immoralities
to occur in order to achieve moralities. Conse-
quently subjective human elements are present
to determine how large the morality must be to
justify the extent of the immorality. Left to men,
according to Elektra, Sophocles' Greek tragedy,
humans have the capacity to allow "the end to
justify any evil.”
Our political system and the government that
it has produced, is a prime example of moral
justification. Corporations, Political Action
Committees and wealthy campaign contributors
want results. Lobbyists armed with hundreds of
thousands of dollars are not effective unless they
influence legislation and the legislators whose
votes are needed to advance it. Excuses are sel-
dom allowed. The End Goal is the only non-
variable and all other aspects of the equation are
fluid. The pressure to "get the job done" eclipses
all sense of moral obligation to "do it the right
way.”
If any morality is great enough to justify any
immorality, then under the right circumstance,
every immorality may be justified.
Justice Louis Brandeis who served as a mem-
ber of the U.S. Supreme Court for 23 years
beginning in 1916, said, “Our government is the
potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for
ill it teaches the whole people by example.
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes
a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it
invites every man to become a law unto himself;
it invites anarchy. To declare that in the admin-
istration of the criminal law the end justifies the
means - to declare that the Government may
commit crimes in order to secure the conviction
of a private criminal - would bring terrible retri-
butions.
Mark Twain told the story about Aunt Polly’s
Fence to give us insight into the soul of Tom
Sawyer. In today’s vernacular “whitewashing"
glosses over and conceals the faults and frac-
tures of state whose people have demonstrated
an aptitude for apathy and complacency. Our
nation shall not long survive in the absence of an
engaged and involved citizenry that stands ready
to speak and hold all levels of government fully
accountable.
Questions or comments please call or write,
405-557-7401 or David.Perryman@okhouse.
gov-
Wall. the ultimate symbol of
the Cold War. Kennedy was
„ America has a Mack eye. eight years together saw a powerless to stop it. another
ourprsideni looks weaker slight thaw in the Cold War. hit for the president. By the
now than before. white rive jm the aha meongsnnaxnurmn foreign
Ruzian pristpraisinsssthett inexperienced, ' Kennedy, policy, his administration was
While thtsPcan easily be said Khrushchev saw someone he tailing. The Russians were the |
about President Trump's meet- could push around. It did not opposite. Fe elingsinvinci the
ing with Putin. I am actually help that Kennedy's first foray they began planning the
talking about President Ken- into world stage was a disaster. deployment of nuclear weap-
nedy's 1961 Vienna Summit Under Ike, the CIA had pre- ons in Cuba.
with Nikita Khrushchev. This pared an invasion strategy to In October of the following
column was inspired by a overthrow the Castro govern- year. Kennedy would shine
friend's online post with a pic- ment in Cuba. Two months His handling ol ‘he Cuban
lure of President Trump say- after JFK took office, he green- Missile Crisis was brilliant
in, “There has never been a lighted the operation, known brinksmanship and he was
president tougher on the Rus- as the Bay of Pigs, which described as having ice water
sians" and then pictures of ended in total failure and com- in his veins. A year and a
Presidents Reagan and Kenne- pletely embarrassed the Ken- month alter the Missile C risis,
dv laughing below. As always, nedy administration. he was dead, Kennedy sfor
I am not commenting on Two months later, still with eign pohey record .s shaky at
Trump's latest meeting, make the fallout of the Cuba calam- best. Besides stopping the
vour own lodgements, but do ily, Kennedy Hew to Vienna to missiles to Cuba he did nego
not rewrite history to do it. It meet with Khrushchev. The tiate a deal to limit nuclear
is fine if sou want to consider meeting was a second failure, testing but also started us down
JFK. or any president, tough in public, the Russian leader the road to Vietnam.
on communism that is fine, treated the president like a I am not trying to defend the
just know that they all had young diplomat who needed president's actions at the recent
their weak moments as well. schooling. In private, Khrush- summit with Putm or saying
The images we have today of chev berated him on issues of that given the time 1 rump, like
JFK and Camelot did not start Cold War foreign policy. The Kennedy, might having a shin-
right away In fact, the refer- biggest issue was Berlin. The ing moment, what I am saying
ence to Camelot did not come German city had been divided is that if we are going to judge
until after his death. Also since the end of WWll. and the him alongside past presidents,
JFK’s image as a tough, cold Russians were trying to push then we need to make fair his
warrior took some time to the Americans out. The sum- torical comparisons.
develop as well. Unfortunate- mil was so one-sided that Ken- Dr. James Finck is an Asso-
ly, JFK followed up the com- nedy told a Times reporter, ciate Professor of History at
minding officer of WWII and "He beat the hell out of me,” the University of Science and
five star general Dwight D. Emboldened by the summit, Arts of Oklahoma. To follow
Eisenhower. Ike and Khrush- Khrushchev returned home Historically Speaking on Face-
chev, the two old cold war- and began to build the Berlin book search for ®jameswfinck
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headquarters.
To get European allies pre-
pared for combat against any
Russian attack, the member
countries are planning for more
NATO battalions, ships, and
planes. The NATO Readiness
Initiative is a fighting force
comprised of 30 land battalions.
30 aircraft squadrons and 30
naval ships within 30 days.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis
has made the case that the "30-
30-30-30” initiative is what is
necessary to deter Russian
aggression in Europe. The
NATO alliance is in agreement.
The United Stales has
launched its most significant
military build-up in 15 years to
improve upon our military capa-
bilities. Our NATO allies should
work in concert with the U.S. to
secure western engagement
around the world. In addition to
involvement with NATO, the
Administration’s policy toward
Russian aggression and interfer-
ence around the world has been
at its best. NATO has been a
cornerstone of trans-Atlantic
security for almost 70 years.
The alliance will remain a cen-
Tom Sawyer i
was something of
a scamp. But he
was a creative
scamp. For
instance, the Sat-
urday morning
that his maternal
aunt “sentenced"
him to applying a
fresh coat of
whitewash to the
front fence,
renewing the
fence with a
cheap, chalky lime
solution was just a
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