West Germany. the President persisted in his wrongheaded decision to visit the German military cemetery at Bitburg that contains the graves of at least 49 Waffen SS members. the epitome of evil in the criminal madness that was the Third Reich. The President compounded this moral lapse in attempting to draw a historical analogy with evil in the contcmporary world when he said: Today. freedomloving people around the world must say: I am a Berliner. I am a Jew In a world still threatened by antisemitism. I am an Afghan. and I am a prisoner of the Gulag. I am a refugee in.a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am a Laotian. a Cambodian. a Cuban. and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I. too. am a potential victim of totalitarianism.