-Caveat Lector- ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: "Linda Muller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear Brigade, "America is the only nation on Earth to claim a right to intervene militarily in every region of the world. But this foreign policy is not America's tradition; it is an aberration. During our first 150 years, we renounced interventionism and threatened war on any foreign power that dared to intervene in our hemisphere. Can we, of all people, not understand why foreigners bitterly resent our intrusions?..." -- Pat Buchanan Below, please find 2 columns: 1. Apocalypse Soon by Tony Blankley 10/6/99 2. Is Cataclysmic Terrorism Ahead? by Pat Buchanan 1/12/99 GO PAT GO!!!!!!! Linda ------------------------------------- The Washington Times - October 6, 1999 Apocalypse soon by Tony Blankley Presidential campaigns are useful for determining: whether a vice president looks more presidential in a brown gabardine or a blue worsted suit while announcing a change of address for his campaign headquarters; whether a Christian gentleman should share an office with a Christian lady -- and whether an aging left-wing movie star can add as much to presidential politics as an atheist former professional wrestler-cum-governor who dreams of coming back in another life as a brassiere for a large woman. And it's only October. We have 13 more months to enlighten, further, the electorate. Meanwhile, the secretary of defense receives the first report from his United States Commission on National Security in the 21st Century, which I read with deepening fear for my dear little daughter Ana, who was sitting on my lap while I looked at the report this weekend. The commission, co-chaired by former Sens. Warren Rudman and Gary Hart, and composed of leading military, diplomatic, political, academic, and business elder statesmen is as sober in its makeup as it is flamboyantly nightmarish in its predictions for the next 25 years. So, sit back, ingest your calming substance or liquid of preference and behold the near future, just as it has been reported to Secretary of Defense William Cohen two weeks ago. Weapons of mass nuclear, chemical and biological destruction will proliferate. We should expect conflicts in which our adversaries, because of "cultural affinities different from our own, will resort to forms and levels of violence shocking to our sensibilities." The United States will often be dependent on allies, "but it will find reliable alliances more difficult to establish and sustain." The report goes on to conclude that despite the fact that the United States will be, both absolutely and relatively, the most powerful nation on Earth, and despite the lack of a global competitor, we will be "limited in our ability to impose our will, and we will be vulnerable to an increasing range of threats." "States, terrorists, and other disaffected groups will acquire weapons of mass destruction and mass disruption, and some will use them. Americans will likely die on American soil, possibly in large numbers." "When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature call out, 'Come!' I looked and there was a pale green horse! Its rider's name was Death, and Hades followed with him; they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, famine, and pestilence, and by the wild animals of the earth." This last quote is from John's Revelations, not the U.S. Commission on National Security in the 21st Century, But, giving allowance for a writing style gap of 2,000 years, it is a sequitur to the report findings immediately above it. Visions of doom led men to religion and a search for God's grace. Today, I fear, the main reaction, if any, is to look for a stock with upside potential if there is increased demand for toxic cleanup and mass contaminated corpse disposal. The faith of our fathers abides, and I hope that the stock market does too. But, in a presidential and congressional election period, shouldn't there also be a vigorous debate on the policies necessary to avoid or minimize the calamity of mass death of Americans from nuclear or biological attack? The report goes on to describe a world in which U.S. intelligence and diplomacy will be inadequate to protect our interests and security. The continued advance of the global economy and technology will destabilize nations and cultures, resulting in anti-technology backlashes. Those same forces will "batter the concept of national sovereignty." Some important nations "will not be able to manage these challenges and could fragment and fail." Nationalism, ethnic and religious violence will rise, creating "humanitarian disasters, major catalytic regional crises and the spread of dangerous weapons." "Big ideas" will spread quickly around the globe, and the "stage will be set for mass action to have social impact beyond the borders and control of existing political structures." The United States will "increasingly find itself wishing to form coalitions but increasingly unable to find partners willing and able to carry out combined military operations." In other words, according to the 14 sober and serious-minded commissioners who filed this report --and represent the very heart of our political-business-military-foreign policy establishment -- the world is going to become unhinged in the next 25 years. They judge that we will neither be able to manage the global chaos abroad, nor stop it from reaping its terrible harvest here on the soil and in the flesh of our heartland. But, awash as we are in our technology's unending flood of information -- and with no one place left to gather as a nation to think about our collective future -- we ignore these warnings, even as we are thrilled by Mr. Gore's change-of- address announcement. Tony Blankley's column for The Washington Times appears on Wednesdays. --------------------- IS CATACLYSMIC TERRORISM AHEAD? by PATRICK J. BUCHANAN January 12, 1999 On the day after Pearl Harbor, ex-President Herbert Hoover sat down and wrote to friends: "You and I know that this continuous putting pins in rattlesnakes finally got this country bitten." Japan's sneak attack was one of the great acts of state terror, but its motive was desperation. The United States had cut off Japan's oil and sent Tokyo an ultimatum: Withdraw from Indochina and China, or we bring you to your knees. Japan decided to seize the oil of the East Indies and eliminate the one force that could stop her: the U.S. fleet. Yet, after we crushed Japan, China fell to Mao and Indochina to Ho Chi Minh and the Khmer Rouge. Had we never intervened in East Asia, Japanese, not Americans, would likely have done the fighting and dying in Korea and Vietnam to contain Asian communism. What calls to mind the phrase "putting pins in rattlesnakes" is an unsettling paper by the Cato Institute's Ivan Eland: "Does U.S. Intervention Overseas Breed Terrorism? The Historical Record." Eland's argument: Americans are the principal targets of terrorists because of our constant meddling in foreign wars. If we do not abandon our compulsive interventionism, we will one day be subjected to an act of cataclysmic terror, with a weapon of mass destruction, perhaps nuclear. Already, we have come close. The World Trade Center bomb was designed to bring down one of those 110-story towers and kill perhaps 50,000 Americans. Had the terrorists used poison gas, they might have killed more than the 3,000 who died at Pearl Harbor. And Osama Bin Laden, the rich, U.S.-hating Saudi terrorist reportedly has long been in the market for a nuclear weapon. Eland's empirical evidence linking U.S. military interventions to retaliatory acts of terrorism is impressive. Consider: U.S. Marines were sent into Lebanon to bolster a Christian regime in 1983. Result: Islamic terrorists bombed our embassy and Marine barracks, killing hundreds, and Ronald Reagan withdrew the Marines. Before 1981, Libya's Col. Qaddafi had not targeted Americans. But Reagan sent U.S. ships and planes across his "line of death" in the Gulf of Sidra, shot down his jets and sank his patrol boats. Result: Qaddafi blew up La Belle nightclub in Berlin, wounding dozens of GIs. Reagan answered with air strikes. Qaddafi retaliated with eight acts of terrorism, by Eland's count, the most horrific being the downing of Pan Am 103. In 1992, George Bush intervened in Somalia. Bin Laden trained the terrorists who lured U.S. Rangers into a trap, killed 18 and dragged the body of one through Mogadishu. Bill Clinton pulled out. Bin Laden calls Somalia his greatest victory and is believed to have planned the 1998 bombings of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. What motivates him? Hatred of America because of our huge military presence on Islam's sacred soil of Saudi Arabia. Robert Kennedy was murdered by a West Bank Palestinian. George Bush was targeted for assassination by Iraqis. Filipino terrorists used to attack Americans until we withdrew from Subic Bay and Clark Air Force Base. Now, they don't. The seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran and other acts of state terror by the mullahs stem from U.S. military support of the shah until 1979. Today, there is a near-identical U.S. presence in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Both regimes are despised by many of their own people, and Americans have been targets of terrorist attacks in both. America is the only nation on Earth to claim a right to intervene militarily in every region of the world. But this foreign policy is not America's tradition; it is an aberration. During our first 150 years, we renounced interventionism and threatened war on any foreign power that dared to intervene in our hemisphere. Can we, of all people, not understand why foreigners bitterly resent our intrusions? With the Cold War over, why invite terrorist attacks on our citizens and country, ultimately with biological, chemical or nuclear weapons? No nation threatens us. But with the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, America will inevitably be targeted. And the cataclysmic terror weapon is more likely to come by Ryder truck or container ship than by ICBM. And no SDI will stop it. Madeleine Albright describes terrorism as "the biggest threat to our country ... as we enter the 21st century." But battling terrorism must go beyond discovering and disrupting it before it happens and deterring it with retaliation. We need to remove the motivation for it by extricating the United States from ethnic, religious and historical quarrels that are not ours and which we cannot resolve with any finality. ------------------- end ------------------ Spread the word -- forward this email across the USA! ********************************************** Don't Miss Out - Join the BRIGADE Email List! 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