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WOULD BILL LAUNCH MISSILES TO PULL AL FROM THE FIRE?
Sunday,October 15,2000
By ROD DREHER
NOW is the time for all medicine factory employees in the Muslim
world to stay home from work. At least until after Tuesday
night's final presidential debate.
Given the Clinton administration's shameful record, there is
every reason to expect Third World blood to be shed to save Al
Gore's flagging bid for the presidency.
To be sure, the prospect of Osama bin Laden and his fanatical
cohorts turned into terrorist tartare by U.S. bombs is deeply
satisfying to contemplate.
And the cowards who murdered the men and women of the USS Cole
have given the United States every reason to hit the guilty back
hard, as we must.
But who can trust Clinton to do it right, to act on hard facts
and clear principle unsullied by selfishness? Our dog-wagging
commander-in-chief is no stranger to committing acts of war to
protect himself politically.
As Christopher Hitchens points out in his devastating
anti-Clinton screed "No One Left to Lie to," this president fired
cruise missiles three times at foreigners on days when
impeachment news was bad.
* On Aug. 20, 1998, as Monica Lewinsky prepared to go before the
grand jury and three days after Clinton's non-apology TV apology
fell flat, the president ordered a missile attack on a
pharmaceutical plant in Sudan.
The administration said the factory was used to make chemical
weapons. That turned out to be a lie - too late, alas, for the
suffering Sudanese who depended on medicine made at that plant.
* That same night, Clinton sent a barrage of expensive cruise
missiles against purported terrorist training camps in
Afghanistan. There was minimal damage, and one wonders why, if
not for political reasons, a costly, fruitless attack was ordered
in such haste.
* On Dec. 15, 1998, Clinton ordered a missile attack on Baghdad,
ostensibly to punish Saddam Hussein for not complying with U.N.
weapons inspectors. Did Saddam have it coming? Absolutely.
But he had it coming for a long time. It was curious indeed that
the missiles went flying as the House was set to take up the
impeachment debate, which was postponed for a few days.
Strangely enough, the missiles stopped falling after the House
impeachment vote showed Republicans would not be intimidated.
Now, here we are less than a month away from Election Day, with
the Mideast crisis putting Gore in a bad position on several
fronts.
Military readiness, for one. As The Post's Bob McManus discussed
in his column Friday, the Cole incident indicates a Navy
stretched too thin, and unprepared to counter threats in the
post-Cold War world.
Second, the prospect of a wider Mideast war is causing oil prices
to spike and the stock market to tremble. A new Arab-Israeli war
could cause the OPEC nations to shut off the West's oil pipeline.
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, released by Clinton to shield
Gore from SUV drivers angry over high gas prices, was supposed to
be for emergencies like this. As the Mideast situation
deteriorates, that Clinton decision looks to have imperiled
national security for the sake of a self-serving political stunt.
Don't be surprised if the U.S. military strikes what we will be
told is a terrorist target sometime between now and the start of
Tuesday's debate, which should have an unusually large audience
given the events of last week.
Any attempt by George W. Bush to use the Mideast debacle to make
sober, legitimate criticism of Clinton-Gore military and
geopolitical policies will be met with pious demagoguery by
scoundrel, pseudo-patriotic Democrats.
I hope I'm wrong. But we have learned by now never to put
anything past Clinton when his political legacy is at stake, as
it certainly is in the Bush-Gore referendum.
Team Bush had better be ready. So should the American people.
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