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Note the part about 89% of journalists voting for Clinton.
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U.S. Report Telling it Like it Is
The New Australian
Clinton and 1922: Is History Repeating Itself?
By James Henry
No. 126, 5-11 July 1999
The ancient Romans said if you want peace, prepare for war. Somehow this is
also the downside of the better-known saying that history always repeats
itself.
Why?
Because it is not that history repeats itself at all, it's just that people
tend to repeat their mistakes. The great mistake America is repeating is to
forget that wise Roman saying. Under Clinton America has been preparing for
defeat. Peace comes through strength. In a pacific world the need for
military might would not exist. But we live, as we have done since time
immemorial, in a dangerous and uncertain world. A world in which powers rise
and fall.
In one sense, American power is unique because it springs from a country
that
was born into liberty. This uniqueness offers no protection against
aggression.
That can only come from fear. Make no mistake: might is fear and it is fear
that keeps democracy safe. It is fear that keeps potential enemies at bay,
not treaties.
Any treaty between a democracy and a tyranny is only as good as the ability
and willingness of that democracy to defend itself. Clinton has greatly
reduced this ability thus putting America in grave peril. Democracies are
dangerously pacific.
This means that once a democracy runs down its armed forces it can become
politically impossible to raise the funds to restore them to the appropriate
level.
There will always be siren voices telling us that there is no foreseeable
danger, which makes as much sense as saying that one should never try to
secure property until after it is stolen. The same voices use this
fallacious
argument to demand that any so-called social spending should always take
precedent over defence spending, which is really arguing that defence has no
social value.
That these arguments are largely articulated by the ant-capitalist Left and
its media allies comes as no surprise. This is the same group that considers
America an exploitative, racist and unjust country. The very same group
Kirkpatrick aptly called the "America-stinks crowd". Now it has found its
apogee in William Jefferson Clinton whose savaging of America's defense
capability could very well bring on this country another "day that will live
in infamy". Only this time it might be our epitaph.
A quick review of the serious damage that Clinton has done to this country's
defenses will strengthen my argument. Something like 2,000 combat aircraft
plus more than 232 bombers which comprised 20 air force and navy air wings
have been abolished. Also gone are 207 ships including more than 121 combat
ships plus of submarines and 4 carrier groups . The loss of these ships also
meant that their shipyard facilities and the trained personnel needed to
maintain them have been disbanded. The damage (or is it sabotage?) to the
army and the nation's nuclear inventory has been equally devastating.
This brings us to the disastrous 1922 Washington Conference. The
Anglo-Japanese Naval Treaty was to be renewed in 1922. As an alternative,
the
U.S. government proposed the Washington Conference that would limit
armaments.
With a little judicious arm-twisting the US government persuaded Britain to
abandon the Japanese relationship and sign a US treaty that would limit the
capital ship ratio for Britain, America and Japan to 5:5:3. In addition, no
new warships over 35,000 tons were to be built and a massive number of
existing warships were to be scrapped. To placate the Japanese the treaty
denied Britain the right to build mainfleet bases north of Singapore while
America was denied the same right to build them west of Hawaii. To make
matters worse, in 1930 Hoover managed to persuade, in the name of peace,
Britain's labor government to make deep cuts to its naval forces.
The result was to break British naval power in the Pacific. There was no way
this ratio would allow Britain to maintain a significant presence in the
Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Gulf, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.
Something had to give. Moreover, the treaty made it impossible for the
American fleet to quickly reach the British if they were attacked. These
facts did not elude Japanese militarists who realised that this insane
treaty
opened up a military window of opportunity for them in Asia.
Thanks to this idiocy the British navy was severely weakened while the
American navy became increasingly antiquated. By refusing to prepare for war
America and Britain helped bring it about. The rise of appeasement in
Britain
coterminous with the rise of isolationism in the US persuaded tyrants that
the democracies were morally and militarily too feeble to fight. The results
were Dunkirk and Pearl Harbor. Not that any of this would influence the
historically illiterate Richard Danzig, Secretary for the Navy and noted for
his anti-defense views.
The US is making the same mistake today, but for different reasons. These
men
of the '20s and '30s were misguided idealists who literally did not grasp
the
nature of the totalitarian threat that was gradually taking shape in Europe
and Japan. They really thought their actions were contributing to world
peace
and avoid another "Great War". They did not loathe their countries or
despise
their military. Clinton and his crew, however, are the exact opposite. They
do not care a fig about their country and they loath the military. Their
basic concern is their own selfish ends. If that puts at risk the security
of
the United States, so be it. Living in clover is all that the likes of
Clinton care about. To this crowd, better to be a pampered Quisling than a
patriotic sap.
But what brought them to this anti-patriotic state? Nearly forty years of
'progressive'1 ideology that left in its wake the insidious belief that
America is an unjust society that does not deserve to survive.
A belief that pervades the media and the three main networks in particular.
Remember: 89 per cent of Washington journalists voted for Clinton and
everything he stands for, including the destruction of our military.
What America needs is a moral revival and the media is a good place to start
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