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Enemies Within - Clinton Administration took away our military edge
Front Page Magazine ^ | March 12, 2004 | David Horowitz

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 America’s 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). Clinton’s 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, I’m 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. "It’s 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 don’t regret setting bombs," Bill Ayers told the admiring New York Times reporter, "I believe we didn’t 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 America’s 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 America’s war.

But we must not forget how slim the margin was by which this President was elected to lead us in our nation’s 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 America’s weakness and the terrorist attack of September 11th. It is a battle we must not lose again.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; clinton; clintonlegacy; enemywithin; horowitz; impeachedx42; iraq; leadership; nationaldefense; nationalsecurity; terrorism; war; x42
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
If john kerry gets to be President, he will make clinton seem like a amateur by comparsion.

kerry is ten times worse that clinton. [I never thought that I would be able to say that]

bill clinton did not, while campaiging attack anyone,[he had his minions doing it]

bill clinton did not tell a classroom full of children from wealthy parents that he was going to raise their taxes. [bill clinton said he would cut taxes]

Why is kerry doing this? I believe that he believes that it has been fore ordained that he will be President. The election is a mere formalty that he must endure.

Can/Will he be elected? There are enough Bush haters and idiots who vote for him on the democrat side.
On the Republican side there are enough Bush pouters who will stay home and not vote to ensure that will happen.


"We have a balance of power he will have a Republican Congress , therefore he will not be able to do anything."
Those individuals with that line of thinking are only deluding themselves.
21 posted on 03/12/2004 5:57:32 AM PST by sport
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
That is a good article, but I don't believe Evan Thomas for a second. This is just an attempt by Newsweak to make Kerry sound so much smarter than the rest of us, especially more smart than a specific kid who was probably playing little league baseball at the time in Midland, TX.

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.

22 posted on 03/12/2004 6:05:49 AM PST by OESY
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To: sport
It's imperative that we all get behind Bush.
23 posted on 03/12/2004 6:05:50 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: joesbucks
***``Is Bush a Conservative?" in Commentary, Daniel Casse of the White House Writers Group notes that a major theme of Bush's governance is ``deconstructing domestic-policy monopolies (Medicare, Social Security, teachers unions, etc.)." And NCLB, although flawed, ``has succeeded in changing the terms of debate."***Source
24 posted on 03/12/2004 6:10:06 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
People who don't know the facts easily accept what their T.V. anchors and morning hosts pass along. These personalities have been on the air so long many people see them as friends, like an old comfortable slipper.

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.

25 posted on 03/12/2004 6:26:27 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (I have more time in the chow line than John f'ing Kerry spent in Vietnam.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Thanks, I just sent this to everyone on my e-mail list encluding the liberals!
26 posted on 03/12/2004 6:29:06 AM PST by Ditter
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To: Arrowhead1952
Unfortunately the viewing public doesn't feel they would lie to them - or leave out details. With luck, they won't bother to go to the polls but many will and we need to rally around Bush to counter the dummies who want anyone but Bush.
27 posted on 03/12/2004 6:32:08 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Ditter
Bump!
28 posted on 03/12/2004 6:32:27 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Maria S
"I believe it may be difficult to turn them around"

Having once been employed designing cryptographic systems, I used to have to work with the NSA for export approval.

All of that changed when that approval authority was transferred to the Commerce Department.

This was done by none other than Bill Clinton.

After that transfer of authority, high tech items which would NEVER have been sold under the old rules began to be exported to anyone with the cash to buy them.
29 posted on 03/12/2004 7:13:42 AM PST by EEDUDE (Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Frankly I hear little if any companies screaming on the transfer of technology from the US to ChIndia. Can you site a situation where a sophisticated company has had their technology sale held up because of a change in the administration?
30 posted on 03/12/2004 7:51:23 AM PST by joesbucks
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
.....With luck, they won't bother to go to the polls but many will and we need to rally around Bush to counter the dummies who want anyone but Bush.

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.

31 posted on 03/12/2004 8:02:30 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (I have more time in the chow line than John f'ing Kerry spent in Vietnam.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Beautiful job CW.
32 posted on 03/12/2004 8:13:16 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by central planning.)
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To: joesbucks
"Sophisticated" companies aren't going to publically make a stink. I have read and posted about Canadian (thus anyone)partners of U.S. companies being the swinging door for foreign involvement in U.S. companies.

Please inform me of the technology transfers you are aware of that are currently happening. I would like to know. .

33 posted on 03/13/2004 12:55:00 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
So it appears that neither of us can make a concise report of goods still being sold to the Chicoms or the flow of goods has stopped. My guess is they are quietly still going forward.

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.

34 posted on 03/13/2004 6:12:58 AM PST by joesbucks
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