-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! Bill Clinton's America: Getting Weaker By The Week Oliver North November 23, 1999 Washington: Hardly a week goes by that our beloved leader, William The Impeached, doesn't do something harmful to America's long term security interests. This week is no exception. Before leaving for another failed "summit" with his buddy Boris, the Butcher of Chechnya, Clinton dispatched his wife to the Middle East where she set the peace process back a few years. While she was gone, he closed a deal to welcome Communist China into "the family of nations;" bailed out U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan with American tax dollars; and launched another attack on America's military readiness. And he did it all with the acquiescence of a Republican-led Congress. Who says a lame duck can't get anything done? Clinton could not have known in advance that his wife would embarrass the U.S. by sitting mute while Mrs. Arafat launched into a diatribe about the Israelis using poison gas against Palestinian women and children. But true to form, "The Comeback Kid," brushed off the criticism faster than a White House intern and bounced back with the "great news" that U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky and Economic Advisor Gene Sperling had "negotiated a framework" for China to join the World Trade Organization (WTO). After 13 years of lobbying three U.S. presidents, the wonderful folks who soaked the cobblestones of Tianenmen Square with the blood of thousands of their countrymen a decade ago will get what they have long sought -- legitimization for their regime in the eyes of the "world community." The sterling fellows whose spies ripped off our nuclear labs and stole our most sensitive secrets will also get permanent Most Favored Nation trading status. When Beijing and its one billion consumers are admitted to the WTO, Congress will no longer be able to preserve even the fig leaf that someone in the U.S. government cares more about human rights than almighty profits. And what do we get out of this supposedly wonderful deal? China has agreed to double the number of Hollywood movies it allows into the country each year. Sounds great; until you read the fine print and discover that the folks who send us cut-rate clothes, machine tools and athletic shoes made with slave labor only allowed Tinsel Town to send in 10 movies last year. "Not fair," says the Clinton Trade Team; the WTO deal also helps American farmers. What do they get? Tariffs on agricultural products will be reduced a whopping half percentage point from 15 percent to 14.5 percent. Meanwhile, has anyone even noticed that the annual U.S. trade deficit with Communist China has now grown to a cool $57 billion? But when you're in search of a legacy, money doesn't matter. What does matter is what people in the "International Community" say about you, and how you are seen. That's why Clinton took a walk through the wreckage of another Turkish earthquake, why he was photographed with American troops digging in for another bitter winter in the Balkans, and why, just before he left for his most recent foreign excursion, he proudly announced that the U.S. would "finally pay its debt to the United Nations." Forget that Kofi Annan is paid more than the president of the United States. Forget that Annan and his fellow globocrats live in posh Manhattan digs and troll New York City in chauffeur-driven limousines. Thanks to Bill Clinton and a Congress anxious to get home for the holidays, the Secretary General of the United Nations has a cool one billion dollars of American cash to use as international walking around money. And here's the saddest part of all this global wheeling and dealing: It's all being done against the backdrop of an ever-weaker U.S. military. Just before he blew out of town for his foreign junket, the Commander-in-Chief was presented with further evidence of the appalling state of readiness in our armed forces. A week ago, it was the U.S. Army, announcing that two of its ten divisions were so short of troops, equipment and training that they could not go to war. This week, it was the Navy. The Eisenhower Carrier Battle Group, set to deploy to the Middle East, won't be combat ready without being able to use the live-fire training ranges on Puerto Rico's Vieques Island. And, the U.S. nuclear submarine force, the cutting edge of American maritime offensive and defensive power, must start going to sea with women aboard in order to maintain adequate crew levels. Ah, what a legacy. COPYRIGHT 1999 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC. Oliver North is a former marine colonel, who you may remember from the Iran-Contra hearings, and currently hosts 'Equal Time' on MSNBC. **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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