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> Memo on the Margin <Picture: crm.gif (1694 bytes)>
>
> August 30, 1999
>
> Accountability at Waco
>
> Memo To: Brit Hume, FoxNews Network
> From: Jude Wanniski
> Re: No Fault Government
>
> Your comments on FoxNewsSunday about the Beltway’s tolerance for stupendous
> error were most welcome yesterday. We now learn six years after the fact -- as
> if we did not know back then -- that the FBI torched the Waco compound of the
> Branch Davidians and killed 76 men, women and children. Whoops, made a mistake.
> And what about our bombing of an aspirin factory in Khartoum, killing the poor
> folks in the vicinity? Whoops. And the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in
> Belgrade, demolishing the building and killing three diplomats? Whoops. Who is
> to blame? And if we can locate them, why are they still on the job? I continue
> to wonder who was responsible back in 1990, in the Bush Administration, for
> advising Saddam Hussein that we would not care if he invaded Kuwait to exercise
> his claims on the oil fields there. Whoops.
>
> This is no-fault government, Brit. Nobody gets fired no matter how much blood is
> spilled because of their blunders. In 1993, when Waco went up in flames, we have
> the vague memory of President Clinton crawling under his desk in the Oval
> Office, insisting it was not his fault. Attorney General Janet Reno, who had
> been on the job for a few weeks when she gave the FBI orders to end the standoff
> at Waco with the use of force, stepped in front of the cowering Clinton and said
> she was responsible! But how come she did not resign? It of course was because
> the nation’s feminists swooned at the true grit of Ms. Reno for being man enough
> to take the blame. Everyone deserves one boo-boo, don’t they? If she had been
> forced to resign, Brit, do you think it possible that Timothy McVeigh might not
> have bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City? I know it is not polite to
> ask that question, but when there is monumental injustice, shouldn’t we expect
> monumental outrage to form like a boil on society? That’s where political
> terrorism comes from, no?
>
> Why now, suddenly, a big deal about Waco? Ms. Reno says it may hurt her
> credibility, for goodness sakes. You know as well as I that Ms. Reno got her job
> at the Justice Department courtesy of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who in early 1993
> was running the Justice Department, the State Department, and the Department of
> Health and Human Services, in keeping with her co-presidency. The federal
> government was too big for Bill, so he gave Hill several Cabinet officers to
> guide, to relieve the strain on him. It was Hillary who told Janet Reno (through
> Vince Foster) to stop fooling around with the Branch Davidians, to use some
> muscle to end the embarrassing standoff in Waco. Wasn’t it? When does no-fault
> government end, Brit? If a President can be caught in a series of lies to a
> federal grand jury and every Democratic Senator says whoops, made a mistake, do
> we now have a total absence of standards of behavior in our government? Can a
> President get away with murder? Here is what I wrote to my Polyconomics clients
> at the time of the Waco travesty:
>
> * * * * *
>
> April 20, 1993
>
> THE WACO FACTOR: If President Clinton had been at the edge of embarrassment last
> week -- with the Beltway Establishment wondering about his capacity to govern,
> as he promoted a laughable VAT tax at the worst possible moment -- the tragedy
> in Waco yesterday pushed him over the brink. Attorney General Janet Reno
> manfully took complete responsibility for the decision to apply the full force
> of the federal government to a religious nut and his followers, as if he were
> Saddam Hussein. The President was less than macho, we all observed, in hastily
> advising the American people that it was not his decision. It was Ms. Reno's.
> The line of inquiry will now question the whole Politically Correct comedy of
> errors that put Ms. Reno into the position of having to prove her manhood -- as
> the first woman named the nation's chief law enforcement officer. The symbolism
> of having Mr. Clinton's first use of force as commander-in-chief result in the
> incineration of a Christian cult, as loony as its leader may have been, can only
> deepen the cultural divide that Bill and Hillary opened up with their gay
> military and federally financed abortions on demand. The nation's political
> leaders in Congress, Democratic and Republican, are now pondering how to deal
> with a White House that has this propensity to crash into territory without
> understanding the consequences.
>
> We can already feel power shift from the White House to Capitol Hill as
> experienced hands decide enough is enough. At this rate, the President will
> rapidly become a figurehead, a ribbon-cutter unable to rally the American people
> behind any of his agenda. Paul Craig Roberts observes that we are getting close
> to parliamentary government, with Cabinet heads looking to the prime ministers
> of Congress for leadership. In their private newsletter today, Evans & Novak
> report: "His negatives are worse at this stage than any recorded since these
> measurements began to be kept. Democratic members of Congress from swing states
> and swing districts reported such negative feelings during their spring recess
> that the support level has continued to drop. Combinations of poor strategy,
> disorganization and just plain bad luck are conspiring to undermine the
> President's position."
>
> * * * * *
>
> On April 28, 1993 within a broader commentary on "Boris and Bosnia," I referred
> back to Waco:
>
> There is so little institutional memory in the President's young team that the
> disaster in Waco may have served a useful purpose by underscoring the unintended
> consequences of the use of force. That is, if not for Waco, the President might
> have already succumbed to the clamor to start the bombing. To prevent the
> possibility of child abuse by the Branch Davidians, the United States government
> wound up gassing the children and their mothers, and the religious zealots
> within burned Mt. Carmel to the ground. There is no more possibility of child
> abuse at the place. Saving the children of Bosnia via the bombing of the Balkans
> will yield the same result. The zealots will not only fight to the death, but
> with a determination to take everyone with them in an Apocalypse Now. Why not a
> surefire way of ending the ethnic cleansing of the region: Drop the big one.
>
> * * * * *
<< I recently passed along another Waco article to a correspondent with the
following observation:
As I read this, and as I have excerpted a quote from the text, I can only think
of the rationales for Kosovo and Iraq (then and now): they were killed to
spare them. Is this the Administration axiom: "You're better off horizontal
(and not breathing) rather than left to roam around (and breathing) causing
mischief -- for us and yourself(selves)! We're here to help!"
Apparently, others have had the same view and I just must apologise for being
so tardy! A<>E<>R >>
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