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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! His narcissism, our problem By Ralph R. Reiland Monday, December 17, 2001 A car bomb exploded in Saudi Arabia at 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 13, 1995, at an American training camp in Riyadh, killing five U.S. servicemen and wounding 34. It was the same day Monica Lewinsky landed a paying job at the White House's Office of Legislative Affairs. In May 1998, some 30 months later, with a federal judge ruling against Bill Clinton's claim of executive privilege and Linda Tripp tucked away in a safe house, Osama bin Laden met with ABC News to applaud those who kill Americans for Allah, pointing specifically to Riyadh: "We called and they answered. They have washed away some of the dishonor we had to bear by the Saudi government's collaboration with the American government in the land of Allah." The attack, said bin Laden, had "raised the head of the Muslim nation high." In fact, the four heads of the Saudis found guilty of the Riyadh blast had been lopped off in a public beheading two years earlier, on May 30, 1996, two days after a Little Rock jury had convicted Clinton business partners Jim and Susan McDougal of bank robbery. Less than a month after the decapitations, militant Islamic terrorists struck again with a massive truck bomb on June 25, 1996, at the U.S. base in Khobar with what Clinton National Security Adviser Anthony Lake said was "probably the biggest terrorist bomb ever set off," killing 19 American servicemen. As it turned out, those servicemen in Khobar were killed during a month when the White House was crawling with Chinese agents. Cooperating with the Justice Department, Johnny Chung told federal investigators that he'd transferred illegal funds to Clinton's 1996 campaign from high-ranking Chinese military officers and Chinese Communist Party officials. More specifically, Chung told investigators how he'd slipped money to the Clinton White House from the daughter of the top commander of China's People's Liberation Army, General Liu Huaqing, a top member of the Chinese Communist Party's ruling Politburo. QUID PRO CLINTON Bernard Schwartz, CEO of rocket manufacturer Loral Space and Communications, was also adding to the stack of campaign loot during this period. Lobbying Clinton to relax export controls so Loral could sell rocket technology to China, Schwartz dropped a record $632,000 in the Democrats' coffers, becoming Bill Clinton's largest single campaign contributor. Clinton, predictably, relaxed export controls and signed an executive order that protected Loral from prosecution for handing over top-secret U.S. targeting know-how to the communist Chinese, missile technology that key officials in Clinton's own administration said would make it easier for the Chinese to hit U.S. cities with nuclear weapons. All told, by the time a re-elected Clinton had stood up to promise to "preserve, protect, and defend" for a second time, Lewinsky already had spilled the beans to co-worker Linda Tripp at the Pentagon and nearly 100 potential witnesses to the Clinton-Gore illegal foreign campaign contributions had either fled the country or taken the Fifth. On Aug. 7, 1998, Islamic terrorists struck again, bombing the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Ten days later, with unparalleled media interest, Bill Clinton made history by becoming the first U.S. president to testify in front of a grand jury regarding his own criminal conduct. Lost in the media circus, shoved off to an inconsequential side ring and off the White House radar screen, were the thousands who were killed and wounded in the latest episode of anti-American terrorism. On Aug. 11, with rescue crews still digging through the ruins in Kenya and Tanzania, Clinton announced an early release from prison for 16 militant members of a Puerto Rican terrorist group that was involved in 130 bombings in the United States. Nothing showed more clearly how things vital had become marginal, how national security had ended up in the back seat. WAG THE DOG On Dec. 16, 1998, exactly one day before the House was scheduled to vote on the articles of impeachment, Clinton launched an air strike against Iraq. By a margin of 74 percent to 13 percent, reported Gallup, Americans supported the air attack. Still, the House approved two of the four articles of impeachment three days later - perjury and obstruction of justice - making Bill Clinton the first elected president in American history to be impeached. A year later, Hillary Rodham Clinton caused an international stir by kissing Yasser Arafat's wife, Suha, after hearing her deliver a speech in which she accused Israel of murdering Arab children - with poison gas! The solidarity and kisses, however, didn't stop a suicide strike on the USS Cole 11 months later, an attack that killed 17 American sailor. It was Feb 26, 1993, only 36 days into the first Clinton term, when the World Trade Center was bombed, an attack that left six dead and 560 injured in the heart of Manhattan. Clinton adviser Dick Morris writes of how Bill Clinton reacted to that first shot by Islamic terrorists at leveling the World Trade Center: "Bill Clinton did not even visit the site of the attack. He remained aloof and uninvolved." And so, the lesson? Too many heads in the sand, too much narcissism in high places, too much passivity, too little intelligence - and, bottom line, not enough focus, not enough resolve to kill terrorism at the root. Ralph R. 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