-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Veritas Vos Liberabit * THE FEDERALIST(r) DIGEST The Conservative e-Journal of Record Date: 20 October 2000 Federalist #00-42.dgst To retrieve today's Digest as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/current00-10.asp To support or sponsor The Federalist, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp CONTENTS: The Founders Federalist Perspective Insight Upright Editorial Exegesis Second Opinion Body Politic Dezinformatsia Sociocrats Village Idiots Short Cuts ______--------********O********--------______ THE FOUNDERS "In time of peace, prepare for war." --George Washington ______--------********O********--------______ FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE In the news this week, prompted by weeks of renewed violence, Bill Clinton hosted another meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian terrorist Yasser Arafat in hopes of salvaging the Oslo Accord. After the meeting, Clinton announced a cease-fire -- which gave the Palestinians ample time to reload. Doing his part to look "presidential," Albert Arnold Gore took a couple of hours off the campaign trail to "assist" Clinton with his strategy. Despite Gore's appearance, Richard Haass, a Middle East specialist at the Brookings Institution, concluded, "Barring some miracle...you can write an obituary for the old peace process." While Clinton was busy refereeing Arafat and Barak, Sheik Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, a presidential appointee and the highest ranking religious official in Egypt, called for Jihad against Israel "in defense of the holy places, the liberation of the land, and the repulsion of the enemy." Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority's official television station broadcast a sermon from a member of the PA's Fatwah Council, Ahmad Abu Halabiya, who said, "Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them. Wherever you are, kill those Jews and those Americans who are like them -- and those who stand by them -- they are all in one trench, against the Arabs and the Muslims -- because they established Israel here, in the beating heart of the Arab world, in Palestine." Back in Israel, a real patriot, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned, "[Yasser Arafat] doesn't want peace with Israel, he wants peace without Israel." In related news, another Muslim cleric claimed last Thursday's bombing of the USS Cole was the work of the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army, casting some doubt that Osama bin Laden was behind the attack. Not wanting to be upstaged, Osama, who is vacationing in the South of Afghanistan, warned, "The dream to kill me will never be completed. I am not afraid of the American threats against me. As long as I am alive there will be no rest for the enemies of Islam. I will continue my mission against them." In other words, we can expect to hear from him soon. Responding to the attack on the Cole, Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen warned, "No one should doubt our resolve to remain a force for peace and for stability.... No one should assume they can attack us with impunity." In our estimate, some goat-herding stooge will get bombed into oblivion just days prior to November 7th. Speaking of threats in the Middle East, in 1992, Senator John McCain and then Senator Albert Gore co-authored a law requiring that sanctions be imposed on any nation supplying weapons to Iran. But in 1995, it appears Gore secretly closed a deal with former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin permitting Russia to arm Iran through 1999. Among the list of items the Russians sent to Iran: three Kilo-class attack submarines with long range homing torpedoes -- which, as noted by Gore and McCain in 1992, poses a significant threat to U.S. Navy vessels and oil tankers operating in the region -- MiG-29 fighter jets, SU-24 fighter bombers, strategic bombers, jet trainers and anti-ballistic missile systems. Of course, the arms trade did not stop in 1999. According to the New York Times, a secret letter from Chernomyrdin stated, "The information that we are passing on to you is not to be conveyed to third parties, including the U.S. Congress. ... I am counting on your understanding." A classified analysis accompanying the letter warned that Russian assistance "if not terminated, can only lead to Iran's acquisition of a nuclear weapons capability. Such a development would be destabilizing not only for the already volatile Middle East, but would pose a threat to Russian and Western security interests." Senate Majority Leader Chester Lott and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms have written Clinton, requesting he "Please assure us the vice president did not, in effect, sign a pledge with Victor Chernomyrdin in 1995 that committed your administration to break U.S. law by dodging sanctions requirements." Memo to Senate investigators: As with Demo-dollars from the Red Chinese, follow the money. Start with 1995 campaign donations laundered through Russian organized crime syndicates in New York. Forget "Love Story," Gore looks more like "The Manchurian Candidate." Memo to the Algorista Regime: Wasn't there some big Demo uproar about secret weapon sales to Iran by some guys in the White House back in the 1980s? In other news, the last of three presidential "debates" concluded Tuesday night. "Sassy" Gore (version 8.1) re-emerged in the third debate after "Agreeable" Gore (version 8.2) failed to boot up in the second debate. For more on the last match, see this week's Second Opinion, "The Final Duhbate." Quote of the week... "So the culture is going to be fixed by the very connoisseurs who have vetted and confirmed all the federal judges who have done so much to ratify the premises of today's popular culture, and to make resistance to it difficult -- in fact, often unconstitutional." --George Will On cross-examination... "For seven years, I paused a split second to ask myself: 'OK, how's this going to help the administration? How's this going to help the president? What's the administration's policy? And how can I make sure that it's reconciled with what I think about this?' " --Mr. Gore Memo to Al: Please explain how you "reconciled" these comments. "Yes, I believe Bill Clinton. ... [Impeachment] does a great disservice to a man I believe will be regarded in the history books as one of our greatest presidents." You added, "I made a commitment that I would do everything I possibly could to help Bill Clinton be the best president he could possibly be. He is also my friend." If you did "everything possible to help Bill Clinton be the best president he could possibly be," what does that say about the quality of your prospective presidency? The BIG lie... "I'm going to lay it on the line. The next president of the United States has to be someone who the American people can believe will stay with his convictions." -- Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic Presidential Debate. **This guy changes colors faster than the chameleon he spent the last eight years promoting. >From "The most ethical administration"... A quote from the "Trickle-Down Ethics" Files: "There's nobody that's any better prepared, not only by virtue of past service, but by virtue of future orientation." --Clinton on Gore's "virtue." **As for Al's "orientation," let's just leave it at "don't ask -- don't tell." News from the Swamp... While Mr. Bush and Gore pontificated about how to dispense with the "surplus," Congress and the Clinton were busy spending it. For example, the most recent bills -- Interior, Energy, Transportation, and Agriculture -- exceed last year's spending by $15 billion, and include $14 billion more in spending that Clinton requested. John McCain said of the budget "compromise," "It's just a free-for-all. They're all equal-opportunity pork-barrelers.... This is the worst ever." Regarding your IRS overpayment... >From the "Gross National Nonsense" files, some AlGoreLogic: "[Mr. Bush] would actually expand the role of the federal government because they have proposed not only a huge $1.6 trillion tax cut, mostly to the wealthy, but also a $1 trillion Social Security privatization proposal." --Al Gore **So, letting people keep and manage more of their money "expands the role of government." Of course, maybe he was thinking about Congress.... >From the department of military readiness... Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki announced that his service branch will make the black berets -- now reserved for the Army's elite Ranger units -- standard issue. Shinseki said, "When we wear the black beret it will say that we, the soldiers of the world's best army, are committed to making ourselves even better. It is time for the entire Army to accept the challenge of excellence that has so long been a hallmark of our special operations and airborne units." And you can do all that by issuing a black beret? Apparently Ms. Monica Lewinsky is Shinseki's apparel consultant. Memo to Eric: Next, let's issue pink berets to the Army's elite "gay and lesbian" units. The Commissars... >From the "Bureaucrati Ignoramus" Files, Tuesday, the State Department issued a memorandum on a Voice of America editorial responding to the attack on the USS Cole, noting, "The Department of State does not clear on the referenced VOA editorial. ... The 17 or so dead sailers (sic) does (sic) not compare to the 100+ Palestinians who have died in recent weeks where we have remained silent." After the memo became public, the State Department reversed itself. >From the States... In the People's Republic of Massachusetts, a judge ruled that a 15-year-old boy, whose Brockton school principal prohibited him from wearing padded bras, wigs and high heels, can wear any clothing other male or female students are allowed to wear. The judge claimed the prohibition amounted to "the stifling of a person's selfhood merely because it causes some members of the community discomfort." Court Jesters... This month's "Legal Lotto" Award: "Of course I'm disappointed. I'm just disappointed. I'm surprised and I'm disappointed." --Joe Alleva, Duke University's athletic director, after a jury awarded $2 million to a kicker who claimed she was denied a spot on the football team because she is not a man. Sounds like Durham, NC, borrowed that jury from Brockton, MA. The "Dumb and Dumber" Department... >From the "Wacky Ideas" file, last month, Gore tried to compensate for the fact that Clinton-Gore has no energy policy by releasing 30 million barrels of crude oil from America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It now appears that as much as two-thirds of the extra home heating oil refined from the SPR release may go to Europe, where prices are higher. The Associated Press reports, "This week the department [of energy] said that heating oil stocks remain well below historic averages for this time of year, including 40 percent below the 10-year average on the East Coast, where many people rely on oil for heating." And a crude ignorance footnote: When asked last weekend if Americans are relying on Iraqi oil, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright incorrectly answered, "I do not believe so. I do not think so." In economic news... Easy come...easy go! Culture comment... >From the "Political Irony" Files, the piano on which pop culture icon John Lennon (AKA Lenin) composed his Communist ballad, "Imagine," sold at auction for $2,300,000. His Ferrari sold for $176,000. In related news, this being the twentieth anniversary of Lennon's death, the most recent issue of Rolling Stone magazine asked Gore his impressions of Lennon's passing. Gore responded, "It was just devastating. Because it was not only the loss of a great man, it was the loss of a true genius. And I have to say that I'm sure that I'm not the only one who felt the loss of all the music that he had yet to write. The loss of any chance the Beatles would come back together and bring us a new sensibility, from the standpoint of that incredible gestalt that they had." As noted by National Review Online, "[Gore] resisted the enormous temptation to say he was the fifth Beatle." Faith Matters... In news from the "Village Church" bulletin, Al Gore conference-called black ministers from Air Force Two last Saturday, asking them to make a voter call from the pulpit. "I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on Earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow." As our readers may recall, the Christian Coalition was shredded by the IRS for printing nonpartisan voter guides, but Gore can repeatedly ask preacher's to rally support for his campaign from their pulpits -- with impunity? Where are the ACLU, IRS, People for the American Way and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State? Do they believe that electing Gore is "doing the work of the Lord here on Earth"? Speaking of "the Lord's work," Joe Lieberman was on the case, pointing out that George Bush is unfaithful to the left's eco-theological doctrine: "If you believe in God, I think it's hard not to be an environmentalist.... [But] given a chance to stand with people, families, or side with the polluters, Governor Bush has too often chosen to side with the polluters." Lieberman told another gathering, "The fact is that...we all are created by God." Of course, if you are an Orthodox Democrite, you must believe that those most innocent of all, the unborn, were created by someone else. And last, Gus Hall, head of the American Communist Party for 40 years, died. Hall, who embodied the political sentiments of Communist sympathizers Armand Hammer and his water boy, Albert Gore the elder, said in one of his last interviews, "Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism. Socialism in America will come through the ballot box." We will see in November. Actually, as aptly demonstrated around the world, socialism is a step back to feudalism. Of course, leftist elite Sociocrats like the Gores are driven by a desire for power -- not to "empower the people." Memo to American Voters: The American Heritage Dictionary defines Communism as -- "A system of government in which the state controls the means of production and a single, often authoritarian party holds power with the intention of establishing a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people." Sound familiar? ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT "[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones." --Polybius {} "...There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil." --Ronald Reagan {} "Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone." --Frederic Bastiat {} "When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules, neighboring rulers will take advantage of this." --Sun Tzu {} "Liberty of thought is the life of the soul." --Voltaire {} "It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well." --Ren� Descartes {} "Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish." --Anne Bradstreet {} "Be just before you're generous." --Richard Brinsley Sheridan {} "Some people pay a compliment as if they expect a receipt." --Anonymous {} "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well meaning, but without understanding." --Justice Louis Brandeis {} "To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise." --Michael Oakeshott {} "Beware of all politicians at all times, but beware of them most sharply when they talk of reforming and improving the constitution." --H. L. Mencken {} "If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked." --George Gilder ______--------********O********--------______ UPRIGHT "There is a name for the Clinton-Gore counterterrorism policy. It's called appeasement. ... Talk is not just cheap: It is deadly." --Kenneth Timmerman ++ "And so Israel is forced to reckon with the unpleasant truth: There will be no peace; at best, armed truce. It's a terrible reality -- but pretending your enemies want peace when they quite plainly do not is foolish beyond measure." --Mona Charen ++ "The 17 dead American sailors and the gaping hole in the listing USS Cole is a symbol of America's failed diplomacy in the Middle East." --Arnold Beichman ++ "Complicity starts at the top of the chain of command, with the president, and works down through the secretary of defense, to all the admirals and generals to the very skipper of that ship." --David Hackworth ++ "We now know that 'improved relations' means letting a U.S. warship be bombed without retaliating, in the new diverse Navy." --Michael Savage {} "The first rule of national defense is national unity. The second rule is to avoid international arrangements that compromise our sovereignty." --J.R. Nyquist ++ "Come January, let's hope our new president rebuilds our broken military not only materially, but morally, by putting in top leaders with the guts to hold to their sworn duty." --David Hackworth ++ "No wonder, among the hundreds of thousands of monuments in the world, there's not a single monument to a peacemaker." --Barry Farber ++ "The arms-control crowd doesn't seem to realize that diplomacy works best when you bargain from a position of strength. And that's no myth." --Edwin Feulner ++ "You cannot be defenseless against evil. To discard the means for people to defend themselves leads to the kind of holocaust we have seen over and over again." --Alan Keyes ______--------********O********--------______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "The Era of Small Government is Over" --The Weekly Standard *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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