-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! This Is Madness John L. Perry April 10, 2001 "One half of the nation is mad – and the other not very sound." –Tobias Smollett, 1721-1771 "Whom the gods would destroy they first drive mad." –Euripides, c480-406 B.C. Jesse Jackson to Beijing? Relax on the psychiatrist's couch. Is it you or the rest of the world that's gone bonkers ... bug-swattin' nuts ... barking mad? This individual steps forth during the nation's anxiety over 24 servicemen and women incarcerated on an Asian island and volunteers his priceless services to travel to China to negotiate their release from their communist captors. Yes, this is the same spiritual adviser and comforter to former president Bill Clinton, the same one who pronounced George W. Bush an illegitimate president. Jackson has, indeed, established himself a national authority, if not an ideal role model, on the subject of illegitimacy. The current president of the United States, busily engaged in unscrambling this Chinese puzzle, politely says thanks, but no thanks. The reverend, taking precious time away from his woes with the Internal Revenue Service, large corporations that suspect they just may have been extorted and his extended family, legit and otherwise, says that's all right: He might just go to Beijing anyway. And he makes it perfectly clear the first words to leave his mouth upon arrival would be an abject apology – the very thing, for right reasons, President Bush has been avoiding like the plague, which is what that would turn into. A Jacksonian apology for exactly what is not clear, but then Jesse, never at a loss for words, could be counted upon to think of something. He does have a way of saying whatever comes to his mouth, with little or no regard for truth or consequences. If a definition of sanity is a clear grasp on reality, is Jesse Jackson the very finest private emissary this nation could think of to send on such a delicate errand? Not to mention whether the Founding Fathers had Jesse in mind when they threw together the Constitution, giving the chief executive of the United States, not of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the sole powers to conduct the nation's foreign affairs. Consider now the following examples of whether the Founders, if around today, would be asking, "Have you people lost your cotton-picking minds?" • OK, then if not Jesse, how about Bill Clinton, on or off his latest elephant? He's had plans to pick up a buck or two making speeches in China. Surely he could work a hostage rescue into his busy schedule. • Or Marc Rich? He's able to move around the world a little more freely now, thanks to the expensive autograph he obtained from then-President Clinton. • Or pick any one of a number of those who were in that parade of money-launderers Bill Clinton and Al Gore used in financing their re-election campaign. They couldn't have lost their Chinese connections this soon. • Then there's, always, Barbra Streisand, whose considerable showbiz talents obviously qualify her for her latest hobby – advising the White House and Capitol Hill on matters of state, foreign and domestic. • Ross Perot, it has come as no surprise, is already all ears to discover how he may intervene personally to effect a release of the captives. • And, finally, there's that other Jesse – Ventura. He's been ginning up his own business-development trip to China in behalf of once-ruggedly enterprising Minnesota, which seems now to think of itself as one of those underdeveloped republics whose downtrodden citizenry is in need of entitled federal charity. • The White House persists in calling America's captured military fliers "detainees." You can bet your shirt those 24 know they're being held hostage. • Speaking of shirts, Ari Fleischer, the White House press flack, actually had the temerity to announce with a straight face at one of his no-news briefings that all was well with the "detainees." They had just that very day been given fresh T-shirts by the Army officer the Chinese were so gracious as to allow to visit them briefly, when and under whatever conditions those captors set for their captives. • The general who has been running the negotiations for the Chinese is also the one who threatened to drop a nuclear bomb on Los Angeles. Not many in the United States, including L.A., still a part of the United States, seemed to care particularly. • Vice President Dick Cheney, once a secretary of defense, told a Fox News Channel interviewer that he hadn't known of that bomb threat to Southern California. Granted California went for Al Gore last year, but isn't a possible mushroom cloud above all that smog worth more than a shrug? • This is the same gang that President Bush has told getting the Hainan 24 home safely and soon was the overriding objective of the United States throughout all this haggling. Never mind nuclear bombs and such. Couldn't have been a Texan who taught this president to play poker. • This is not to denigrate the valor of those 24 young Americans wearing the uniform of their country. But the reality is that all who don that uniform know full well it can mean their lives before the lives and security of their fellow Americans. Harm's way is what they have to expect, what America's enemies must learn to respect. • It boils down to American national security, and what are the on-air air-heads obsessed with? Punishing China with no Olympic Games, a hollow threat because Washington doesn't control the controlling committee. • Well, then, the Chinese had better watch out or Congress will cut off their trade. Yeah, sure, with American corporations and their pet politicians salivating like dogs in heat to turn all those 1 billion-plus Chinese into credit-card-carrying consumers. • Already this country's fourth-largest trading partner, China buys only $16 billion a year from the United States, which buys $100 billion from China. Mustn't let a couple dozen troops stand in the way of reversing that equation. Business is business. If Uncle Sam were stretched out on a psychiatrist's couch, here's what he might be asked: If the United States cannot guarantee an immediate return of 24 members of its own armed services, how can it possibly assure American civilians of their safety while visiting in China or their ability to return home at will? Will an American passport become around the world just a cheap souvenir? President Bush has since Day One in this hostage negotiation stood in danger of being reduced to a petulant foot-stamper. What would it come to: "Give us back our boys and girls or I'll hold my breath and turn blue"? It used to be "Don't mess with Texas." Will it end up being "Have your way with all 50"? But enough of this negative talk. Here's the ideal solution, a recipe for return to national sanity: Send Jesse Jackson to Communist China. He stays there in their place, and the 24 patriotic Americans come home to America, where they belong and are respected. John L. 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