Posted on 03/12/2004 3:04:46 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
THE FACT that we are at war is not news. We have been at war for more than half a century with the radicals who hate America and hate American capitalism. The World Trade Center was the symbol of "Wall Street" the Great Satan of the radicals religion. It was the symbol of "globalization." That is why it was the prime target for these terrorist attacks.
This is a war that Communism started, and that post-Communist radicals are continuing. The radicals who hate America and Americas freedom will never give up. They have to be defeated.
The September 11 tragedy was not the first time the World Trade Center was hit. In 1993, the forces of terror, including those associated with Osama Bin Laden and Yassir Arafat detonated a bomb at the base of the towers that killed 6 people and injured 1,000. The architect of that bombing was a terrorist named Ramzi Yusef. He was a member of the Palestinian Hamas movement and was captured with plans for a coordinated series of hijackings and suicide crashes of U.S. commercial airliners. But no in one in government took the plans seriously enough to prepare a defense.
President Clinton refused to recognize that we were at war; he did not alert the nation; he did not call us to arms; and he did not mobilize U.S. security forces to prepare the nation (or even the World Trade Center) for a defense against these attacks.
Instead of crushing Arafat and Hamas and their comrade Osama Bin Laden, the Clinton Administration forced the Israelis into the Oslo "peace process," which legitimized the terrorists, provided them with billions of US dollars in aid, and gave them an army with tens of thousands of weapons.
Far from preparing America for the war it was already in, the Clinton Administration pretended we were at peace. It even acted as though America itself was the threat. Government security controls were removed on sales and transfers of high-tech instruments of war. Missile and satellite technologies and super computers were passed to China by the Clinton Administration and, through China, to North Korea, Iran, Libya and Iraq.
Through these transfers, the Clinton Administration took away our military edge and disarmed our high-tech defenses.
Why were US intelligence agencies unable to provide warnings despite the immense traffic of terrorist communications required to plan the September 11 terrorist attack? Because the Clinton Administration had given away the technology to encrypt such messages and make them invisible. These technologies included computer networks that cannot be monitored and spread-spectrum radios that change frequency and are impossible to penetrate. Our technological defenses were systematically disarmed by our own President.
The Clinton Administration also took steps to disarm our human intelligence defenses. In 1995, new "sensitivity" guidelines were issued for our intelligence agencies that gravely restricted their ability to gather information in the countries where the terrorists were based. Because an American leftist had been widowed by a "human rights violator" in Latin America who was employed by the CIA, the CIA was forbidden to use "human rights violators" as intelligence assets. This was like forbidding local law enforcement from using common criminals as informants. But common criminals do not bring down 100-story skyscrapers.
After the CIA was hamstrung, two of our African embassies were bombed by the terrorist network. Our response was an impotent missile launched into the Sudan by Clinton (on the day Monica Lewinsky appeared before the grand jury). Clintons response destroyed a medicine factory in the Sudan and antagonized hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world. Other missiles were launched into Afghanistan where Osama Bin Laden had his camps. But to no effect. More terrorist acts followed. Our warship the USS Cole was blown up in Yemen. A barracks containing our troops was bombed in Saudi Arabia. Nothing was done.
The Clinton Administration refused to recognize the threat, refused to mobilize the nation, refused to arm our security forces to the levels needed to defend us, refused to recognize that we were in a war and refused to declare a policy to win it. The terrorists got the message: America is weak. The refusals put us in danger as a nation, and made the tragedy of September 11th possible.
But now we have a new President, and a new Administration. "When I take action, Im not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt," this President told a group of Senators. "Its going to be decisive."
With this new leadership, our war has begun. And we will win it.
What this history tells us is that terrorists are not the only enemy we have within.
This is not about the critics of American policy. Policies are the work of human beings. They can always be criticized. This is about purpose. It is about faith in the basic good of this country. It is about those who have declared war on America.
On the very day that the World Trade Center towers were destroyed, the New York Times ran a flattering profile of Bill Ayers, one of the leaders of "Weatherman," a Sixties radical group and the first terrorist cult in America. Ayers is now a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois. That is the way our educational system views unrepentant terrorists. The Weathermen bombed the U.S. Capitol Building in the 1970s. "I dont regret setting bombs," Bill Ayers told the admiring New York Times reporter, "I believe we didnt do enough."
This is the face of the hate-America left.
This left is educating our children in our schools. It is out demonstrating on Americas campuses, with "teach-ins" against the war. It is proselytizing students with a message that is always the same: America is guilty; America is to blame.
The foes of free markets and free minds have not surrendered. They are even bolder now that they cannot be linked to the crimes of Communism which they encouraged and supported. They are behind our own lines. They have burrowed into our schools, our churches, our media, our government itself. And their message is always the same: America is guilty; America is to blame.
The months ahead will be difficult ones, but they will also bring opportunities. We can be grateful that many Americans have now begun to appreciate what they have in this country, and also that what they have can be lost. Already there is a new unity, a new patriotism in the land. Already Americans are beginning to realize how lucky they are to have a President who believes in America, and who is committed to winning Americas war.
But we must not forget how slim the margin was by which this President was elected to lead us in our nations crisis. We must not forget how deeply the forces that hate America have penetrated our institutions and weakened our national resolve.
Our task is to continue our efforts to strengthen the foundations of this great democracy of ours, to win the hearts and minds of those who are in America, but not yet of it, not yet for it.
This is the battle we are in together. It is a battle we lost in Vietnam. That loss led directly to Americas weakness and the terrorist attack of September 11th. It is a battle we must not lose again.
I too question Thomas' objectivity, considering he was the grandson of Norman Thomas, the socialist-pacifist who ran six times for president -- unsuccessfully, I should add.
You must be talking about the perky B!+c#, dan blather and the likes. Trouble with old comfortable slippers, is when they are real comfortable, they are also normally worn out. That worn out part applies to most of the TV anchors and hosts.
I also hope a lot of them stay home to watch miss perky instead of going to the polls to vote. I know the libs here in Austin want Bush back in Texas for good. There are so many Bush-haters here.
Please inform me of the technology transfers you are aware of that are currently happening. I would like to know. .
I am also going to infer from your response that we are using the Canadians as intermediaries to allow the technology and other sophisticated tranfer of goods and technologies to the Chicoms? If that's the case, then what's the difference? We are still sending (selling) the material to those bent on destroying us. So what if we've got to pay a middle man? And as this President has continued to push normalization with the Chicoms as well as MFN, it appears that he is similarly complicit to the previoius cat in the oval office.
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