A Troubling Influence

Front Page Magazine ^ | 9 December 2003 | Frank Gaffney

[LSUfan]

At a black-tie dinner on November 5th, nearly 300 conservative activists and politicians gathered at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel to recognize a prominent fixture in their community: tax-advocate and conservative coalition-builder Grover Norquist.

The talk that evening was of the honoree’s tireless efforts to advance his libertarian objective of down-sizing federal, state and local governments by reducing their revenues.  He was toasted for organizing nationwide initiatives to memorialize Ronald Reagan, notably with the renaming of the capital’s National Airport after the former President. 

Most in the audience were surely unaware that the effect of their tribute – if not its organizers’ intended purpose – was to provide urgently needed political cover for a man who has been active on another, far less laudable and, in fact, deeply problematic front: Enabling a political influence operation to advance the causes of radical Islamists, and targeted most particularly at the Bush Administration. The growing influence of this operation – and the larger Islamist enterprise principally funded by Saudia Arabia – has created a strategic vulnerability for the nation, and a political liability for its President.

[LSUfan]

The article is very lengthy and has an introduction by David Horowitz. Click the link to read the whole disturbing truth...

[dighton]

See also comments here and here.

[the invisib1e hand]

the whole disturbing truth...

according to the author, who was vehemently rebuked on talk radio yesterday by Norquist, and credibly so.