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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Administration's scandals obscure the most serious
blunders (fwd)
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>http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/0930rees.htm
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> Administration's scandals
> obscure the most serious blunders
>
> By Charlie Reese
> of The Sentinel Staff
>
> Published in The Orlando Sentinel, September 30, 1997
>
> The sordid sex and money scandals that have
> buzzed continuously over the Clinton
> administration like flies over an August roadkill
> have obscured the most serious blunders of this
> most unqualified commander in chief.
>
> He is wrecking the country's military capability.
>
> He is failing to deal responsibly with the only two
> countries that pose a potential threat to the
> continued existence of the United States.
>
> Already professional soldiers say privately that the
> United States right now does not have the
> capability of repeating the Gulf War, yet
> Washington purports we are prepared to fight two
> regional wars (though the desire to get involved in
> regional wars is itself evidence of failure of political
> leadership).
>
> The purpose of the military is to provide for the
> common defense of the United States by being
> prepared to fight and win wars. Yet to the people
> in the Clinton administration, defense is seen as
> nothing more than an opportunity to make budget
> cuts in an area they despise and to cater to
> feminists, homosexuals and professional
> race-mongers at the expense of both readiness and
> morale.
>
> Rather than matching means and missions, the
> Clinton administration has been reducing the means
> and increasing the missions. For the first time in
> history, American forces are deployed in 100
> countries on various United Nations housekeeping
> missions. This policy increases the wear and tear
> on both personnel and equipment, not to mention
> wasting money.
>
> The services are losing pilots right and left, though
> ordinarily military pilots are among the most highly
> motivated in the officer corps. Nobody who
> knows anything about fighter pilots would believe
> that they would give up their high-performance
> military aircraft for the ``bus driver'' job of flying a
> commercial aircraft just to make more money.
> Morale is low.
>
> Only two countries are potential military threats to
> the United States in the foreseeable future --
> Russia and China. The Chinese have, according to
> wire reports, been buying about $1 billion worth of
> Russian arms per year for the past five years.
>
> More recently, a Pentagon analyst reported that
> the bulk of Chinese military writings, which China
> takes no trouble to hide, view the United States as
> a declining power that can be defeated with the
> proper strategy in the near future.
>
> The Russians still have 10,000 or so nukes and
> certainly the brain power to modernize their forces.
> The idea -- easily picked up from snippets of
> newscasts -- that the former Soviet Union is some
> prostrate, harmless Third World country is false.
> It's political direction in the future remains
> unknown.
>
> So certainly, a wise president would be focusing
> not only intelligence but diplomatic resources on
> China and Russia. Instead, Clinton seems to
> discount both, cavalierly expanding the North
> Atlantic Treaty Organization to the dismay of
> Russian liberals and turning China policy over to
> the merchants and Wall Streeters.
>
> A wise president would also be attending to the
> military's ability to fight and win a strategic war. To
> do this, he would be seeking out the wisest, most
> experienced military advisers rather than the most
> politically correct. He would be most concerned
> about military readiness, not about placating
> feminist harpies or the homosexual lobby.
>
> A president is a man like any other. He has the
> same 24-hour day. If he chooses to devote most
> of his time and energy to petty partisan affairs and
> ego-flattering public appearances, then he won't
> have time or energy for strategic matters. If he
> views his appointments as nothing more than
> patronage, then he will lose the advantage of wise
> counsel. Bad leaders produce bad consequences.
> That's one of those history lessons nobody seems
> predisposed to care about these days.
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>" I'am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates
>of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures,
>engraving them in the hearts of youth.
> I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign
>paramount. Every institution in which men are not increasingly
>occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt."
>
> Martin Luther [ 1483-1546]
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>"The First Amendment has erected a wall of separation between church and
>state, but that wall is a one directional wall; it keeps the government from
>running the church, but it makes sure that Christian principles will always
>stay in government."
>--Thomas Jefferson, 1 Jan 1802, address to the Danbury Baptists
>
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