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Mr. Slaughter reminded the audience that he "didn't see the necessity” of reflagging Kuwait’s oil tankers. “If we don't get the coope-. ration of Arab states, l*m dubious whether we should stay. We should not make commitments which cannot be changed from time to time," he said. "I think we should lean on the allies’’ for help, he added.
Newbill Miller observed that “the only thing which worries me • about our Persian Gulf presence is not having a presence in the Persian Gulf. The Russians are right there.”
Jesse Pond addressed several concerns to the congressman, telling him of his displeasure with the Navy’s action in relieving the captain of the U.S.S. Stark from duty after an Iraqi missile attack on his ship. Also, he said, he is distressed over the Navy’s lack of minesweeping capability. “The Navy is over there - in harm’s way - and they’re not prepared.”
As a Navy veteran who served during World War II, Mr. Pond told of his visit to see the newly-commissioned aircraft carrier U.S.S. Teddy Roosevelt last year. The carrier and its task force cost some $2 bilHhh, Mr. Pond said, “and my only thought was, What a target’.”
Mr. Slaughter explained that some of the problem rests with the understanding among the NATO al- • lies that if the European countries would build the small ships, like minesweepers, the United States would supply the heavy ships. “They
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