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Great post thanks. I am adding something below as a reminder that, as "Oath to 9/11" depicts, there were plenty of people issuing warnings....
Strikes Show Defense Matters
By John E. Carey
Published in The San Francisco Chronicle
Friday, August 21, 1998
Yesterday, the President ordered air strikes against terrorist sites in Sudan and Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Cohen said the target in Sudan was a chemical weapon facility able to supply terrorists groups hostile to the United States. Post-Cold War foreign policy has taken a new turn.
We are living in a new strategic environment that we do not yet fully understand. Many potential adversaries pose threats to us in new and different ways. Bombings at embassies, barracks, and office buildings show how vulnerable we are to less sophisticated yet determined adversaries. The bombings to date would pale in comparison to the use of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, the “weapons of mass destruction.”
Some of our adversaries are undeniably at work developing ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. This ushers in an entirely new age of threat, terrorism, intelligence and defense.
Our newest threat comes from terrorists like Osama bin Laden, a Saudi by birth that hates the U.S. and is intent upon exporting terrorism.
Republican candidate Matt Fong, running for the U.S. Senate in California, believes we need to abolish the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. He says we need to prepare defenses against ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. His concerns deserve a closer examination.
Since April of this year:
*Pakistan tested its new medium-range ballistic missile, Ghauri. Ghauri threatens all of India.
*India responded with not one but two rounds of nuclear tests. India already has proven ballistic missiles, Agni and Prithvi, that can hit all of Pakistan.
*Pakistan, despite pleas from the United States, conducted its own tests.
*North Korea’s Nodong medium-range ballistic missile, which can hit targets in South Korea and Japan, became operational.
*A bi-partisan commission headed by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld unanimously concluded that several countries are developing longer range ballistic missiles and that the proliferation of ballistic missiles is accelerating at an alarming rate.
*The commission said that North Korea is developing an even longer range ballistic missile, which will have the capability to reach targets in Alaska and Hawaii. The commission also said it believes that the Iranian Shahab-3, a medium-range ballistic missile, “may be flight-tested at any time.” A week later, Iran tested the Shahab-3 missile.
*Intelligence estimates and a State Department official confirmed that Iran is pursuing Shahab-4, a longer range ballistic missile, and is probably embarked on a nuclear weapon program. Shahab-4 could threaten people as far away from Iran as Central Europe.
*A new CIA report to Congress confirmed that China, Russia and North Korea have been major suppliers of weapons of mass destruction and delivery systems to “countries of concern.” Countries such as Iran.
*Last Monday, the New York Times reported that as many as 15,000 people in North Korea could be engaged in nuclear developments.
The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was made in 1972 with the Soviet Union, a nation that no longer exists. The world has changed. Nations like North Korea and Iran are unencumbered by this treaty. They find ways around our counter-proliferation efforts.
The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is no defense against ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction in the hands of rogue nations or terrorist groups.
We need a long-term view of our future security, defense and intelligence needs. No single easy answer is apparent but one thing is certain: intelligence and defense still matter. Some treaties made during the last half century may need to be reviewed. Ballistic missile defense may become a necessity. Increased intelligence resources may be needed.
John E. Carey is a retired Naval Officer and a missile proliferation analyst in Arlington, Virginia.
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Good Read Pook. Thank You.
This article is SPOT ON.
David Horowicz understands these people (Liberals) all too well, he was one of them, a hard-core "Red Diaper Baby".
Most Americans do not realize the danger we had placed our country in by allowing the Clinton administration into office, populated by people like Sandy Berger and Anthony Lake to populate our government, not to mention Bill and Hillary Clinton (Yes, I know she did not "hold" elected office, but her influence on the administration is beyond denial)
Leopards do not change their spots. It was a foolish pipe dream to think that these liberal, Hate America Firsters were going to somehow shed their immature Sixties mindset and become responsible adults when they took over the government.
Everything they had done in life prior to becoming the ruling party prepared them to take the actions (or non-actions) and implement the policies they did, to the sad, lasting and tragic detriment of our country.
The blood and lives of 9/11 victims is added to the blood and lives of Vietnamese and Cambodians as the price of liberalism in the world. Personally, I have begun to view liberalism in the same light that I view Communism.
Joseph McCarthy, where were you in 1992?
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The Left did indeed "look" into the "root causes" of the Oklahoma City bombing. The Left immediately started placing the blame on Rush Limbaugh, "hate radio" (anything that did not follow the DNC party line), and all of those racistsexisthomophobic Republicans.
Thanks Pookie, good post!
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Clinton didn't have time to sleep, he was too busy playing with his zipper.
Excellent analysis by Horowitz! I've always thought he has special weight to his words, coming, as he does, from someone who was born and raised on the left but now is free and illuminated.
Read Bubba's 2000 State of the Union. "in 10, maybe 20 years, after most of us have passed, the Middle East may be a real threat".
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>The defeat in Mogadishu was a blow not only to American charity, but to American power and prestige. Nonetheless, under the leadership of America's then commander-in-chief, Bill Clinton, there was no military response to the humiliation. The greatest superpower the world had ever seen did nothing. It accepted defeat.<
Previously, the Carter administration stood helplessly by, as Iran held American hostages. When the Carter administration launched a rescue attempt, it failed miserably, costing the lives of American servicemen.
Bush 41 fought the Gulf War, but did not push into Baghdad.
It's no wonder Bin Ladin thought America was a toothless foe.
The dems are trying to convince the nation to hit the snooze bar and roll over...the only thing that is going to do is get us to work late. At a time when someone's trying to blow up your house that is a very dangerous thing to do.
Thanks pookie, excellent read.