Posted on 11/17/2006 7:17:54 AM PST by Mia T
HILLARY CLINTON REPRISES FATAL CLINTON ERROR
The most potent weapon in the terrorist's arsenal is the psychological--the selective use of real information, disinformation, manipulation of the press, propaganda, and other psychological (Psy-Ops) warfare methods.
Missus clinton's "hortatory" notwithstanding, these are also the clintons' and the Left's weapons of choice in their domestic wars.
In asymmetric warfare, the belligerents are, by definition, of unequal power: The terrorists lack the military might. The clintons and the American Left lack the ideas. Psychological warfare is the most easily attainable equalizer.
Missus clinton's rejection of the essential strategic value of the psychological--of hope (and despair)--in the War on Terror reprises a fatal clinton error.
Saddam Hussein won the stand-off with the United States in early 1998 over chemical/biological weapons and inspections of his palaces, in part because he was able to manipulate public opinion in the United States and elsewhere and split the former allied Persian Gulf coalition. Indeed, had the clintons understood this dynamic, even Saddam's Oil-for-Food kickback scheme would have been more difficult to pull off. Had the clintons understood this dynamic, the Iraq War, arguably, would have been averted.
Similarly, Osama bin Laden won in Somalia because the clintons chose to deny this dynamic. Had the clintons chosen otherwise, i.e., had they chosen America's interests instead of their own, (protecting their poll numbers and winning the Nobel Peace Prize), 911 would be today nothing more than the universal emergency phone number and al Qaeda would be no more than a loose collection of virtual sapper squads put together for the purpose of committing one act and then disbanding and dispersing, which was the precise scenario in 1993 when they bombed the World Trade Center and the clintons did nothing.
|
|
thanx :)
Thank you "Mia T"!!
Nancee
"melancholy": this one interests both of us for obvious reasons.
thank you, Nancee. :)
Mia, thank you!
you're welcome, 2dogjoe. :)
ping
ping
ping
bump
bttt
thanx, Twinkie :)
thx, bmwcyle :)
Ignoring a declaration of war leads to bad results.
When someone tells you they want to kill you, it's best to pay attention.
BTTT!!!
Hey! I said this right here on FR months ago. This fat-ankled be-atch has been lurking here and stealing lines!
Ignoring a declaration of war leads to bad results.
When someone tells you they want to kill you, it's best to pay attention.--griswold3
Indeed. Why did bill clinton ignore terrorism? Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security? To understand why clinton failed so utterly to protect America from bin Laden, we begin by examining what clinton, himself, has said on the matter: "Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in '91 and he went to the Sudan. We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him [bin Laden]. At the time, '96, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America. So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have; but they thought it was a hot potato. They didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan." bill clinton We note first that this is classic clinton snake oil, exploiting liberal credulousness and the gestalt concepts of structural economy and closure (the tendency to perceive incomplete forms as complete), sleight of hand that enabled clinton to tell the story of his utter failure to fight terrorism, his failure to take bin Laden from Sudan, his repeated failures to decapitate a nascent, still stoppable al Qaeda, without explicitly admitting it. Note that the linkage between the above two sentences and the indirect object of the second sentence are each implied, giving clinton plausible deniability. This position is surprising because: Clearly, the impeached ex-president treated terrorism not as war but as a law enforcement problem, which, by definition is defensive, after-the-fact and fatally-too-late. He appears not to understand that when terrorists declare war on you
and then proceed to kill you
you are, perforce, at war. At that point, you really have only one decision to make: Do you fight the terrorists
or do you surrender? Critical to the understanding of the clintons' (and the left's) inability to protect America from terrorism is the analysis of clinton's final phrase, "though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America." "I did not bring him [Osama bin Laden] here... though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America." This phrase is clinton's explicit rejection of both bin Laden's repeated declarations/acts of war and the (Bush) doctrine of preemption to fight terror. This phrase underscores clinton's failure to understand that: Finally, this last paragraph documents the clinton propensity for passing the tough problems (and the buck) to others (while arrogating their solutions as his own). It would have been a simple matter for him to take bin Laden. Why did he turn the offer down? The answer to this question is the answer to the overarching question. Why did clinton ignore terrorism?
Sunday, Aug. 11, 2002
Clinton Reveals on Secret Audio:
I Nixed Bin Laden Extradition Offer"The Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again; [so] they released him [to America]."
"[H]e had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America."
"So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have; but they thought it was a hot potato."
thanx, Impeach98 :)
Couldn't agree more. Hillary and the left do nothing more than use blantant propaganda to scare voters because their ideals...if you call them that...aren't worth the paper they are printed on. Speaking of paper....
"Hey Hillary...Stop quoting the Communist Manifesto. It's not the Bible!"
Titillating Tees
http://www.cafepress.com/titillatingtees.70093332
bump
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.