-Caveat Lector- Ex-CIA director blasts China policy Woolsey likens strategy to failed 'appeasement' before WWII ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 ‹ Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey on Tuesday accused the Clinton administration of pursuing a policy of appeasement toward China and likened it to the way Britain and France dealt with Nazi Germany on Czechoslovakia before World War II. "IT IS WRONG-HEADED and dangerous," Woolsey said as a House committee prepared to hold a hearing on legislation that would authorize the sale of conventional submarines, a theater missile defense and other military assistance to Taiwan. TAIWAN AID OK'D The House International Relations Committee separately approved a bill that would increase military links with Taiwan by promoting U.S. training of Taiwan's military officers and opening up lines of communication with the Taiwan military during times of crisis. Committee Chairman Ben Gilman, R-N.Y., said the bill was in response to "Beijing's outright refusal to renounce the use of force against Taiwan" and its "overwrought saber-rattling." The measure, approved 32-6, was weakened from the original version of the bill that authorized the sale of specific weapons to Taiwan. But it was still opposed by the administration, which says that it is both unnecessary and could increase tensions in the area. "These types of changes can be particularly destabilizing given the current environment," Assistant Secretary of State Stanley Roth told reporters. Woolsey, central intelligence director for President Bill Clinton in 1993-1994, said the administration policy is a potentially tragic attempt at "strategic ambiguity" like the failed effort by Britain and France to discourage Hitler from seizing Czechoslovakia. 'SHORTSIGHTED POLICY' "The executive branch needs to be forced to change its shortsighted policy," Woolsey said in backing the legislation at a seminar at the Nixon Center, a private research group. Woolsey said Clinton's declaration of a "strategic relationship" with China, his adoption of a one-China approach on the dispute between Beijing and Taipei and repeated U.S. apologies for NATO's mistaken bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in May have encouraged hard-line factions in Beijing. Appeasement is "a proper word to describe the administration's stand," Woolsey said. A former deputy, Robert Suettinger, said he also was troubled by Clinton's declaration of a "strategic relationship" with China, which could imply some form of military alliance. But he said "to accuse the administration of appeasement is to substitute rhetoric for reality." Suettinger opposed the legislation, saying foreign policy should be left to the executive branch and that the bill encroaches on that constitutional authority. © 1999 Associated Press This mailing list is for discussion of Clinton Administration Scandals. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send electronic mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body put: unsubscribe cas DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
