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THE FEDERALIST(r) DIGEST The Conservative e-Journal of Record * Veritas Vos Liberabit * 14 September 2001 Federalist Edition #01-37 Friday Digest *To change your e-mail format to text, HTML or Adobe PDF (as an attachment) Link to -- http://www.federalist.com/subscribe/myformat.asp?[EMAIL PROTECTED] *To retrieve today's Digest as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/current2001.asp *To purchase a book from the Patriot's Library, link to -- http://www.federalist.com/books.asp *To support or sponsor an edition of The Federalist, link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp CONTENTS: Publisher's Note The Foundation Insight Upright (Part 1) Federalist Perspective Upright (Part 2) ______----********O********----______ PUBLISHER'S NOTE President George Bush has proclaimed this day -- September 14th, 2001 -- a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the Victims of Tuesday's attack on our countrymen: "Scripture says: 'Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted.' I call on every American family and the family of America to observe a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, honoring the memory of the thousands of victims of these brutal attacks and comforting those who lost loved ones. We will persevere through this national tragedy and personal loss. In time, we will find healing and recovery; and, in the face of all this evil, we remain strong and united, 'one Nation under God.' "NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Friday, September 14, 2001, as a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the Victims of the Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001. I ask that the people of the United States and places of worship mark this National Day of Prayer and Remembrance with noontime memorial services, the ringing of bells at that hour, and evening candlelight remembrance vigils. ... "IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-sixth." GEORGE W. BUSH ______----********O********----______ THE FOUNDATION "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin ______----********O********----______ INSIGHT "Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, and labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph." -- Theodore Roosevelt ______----********O********----______ UPRIGHT (Part 1) >From a couple of seasoned warriors: "There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil. It must be the core of Western policy that there be no sanctuary for terror. And to sustain such a policy, free men and free nations must unite and work together.... When our citizens are abused or attacked anywhere in the world on the direct orders of a hostile regime, we will respond so long as I'm in this Oval Office. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty.... We Americans are slow to anger. We always seek peaceful avenues before resorting to the use of force.... I warned that there should be no place on earth where terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I meant it. I said that we would act with others, if possible, and alone if necessary to ensure that terrorists have no sanctuary anywhere. Tonight we have. Thank you, and God bless you." -- President Ronald Reagan, April 14, 1986, Address to the Nation on the U.S. Air Strike Against Libya. "We have here a battle between the forces of freedom and the forces of tyranny, between the forces of democracy and the forces of terrorism. It is not accidental. Arafat can shed crocodile tears and donate his blood. He's been shedding innocent blood -- including innocent American blood -- for decades. ... What we have...is a network of terror. There is an empire of terror. There are chiefdoms. Arafat has his own chiefdoms. Bin Laden has his own chiefdom. The Hezbollah in Lebanon have their chiefdom. There is Hamas and Islamic Jihad working under Arafat's chiefdom. And they enjoy the support and sponsorship in close cooperation with such sovereign states as Iraq and Iran, havens in Afghanistan and other Middle Eastern regimes. They work together, both in material support and of course political support. These regimes that are part of this terror network are developing now nuclear weapons. If we don't dismantle this terror network in time, the regimes and the organizations that have absolutely no inhibition in destroying the United States and its allies.... Amid the smoking ruins of the twin towers, you could see the silhouette of the Statue of Liberty holding that torch of liberty very proudly and very high. It's that flame of liberty that these people want to extinguish." --Benjamin Netanyahu ______----********O********----______ FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE In the news this week, realization of our nation's new war footing is settling in, just as the dust is settling over thousands of our countrymen under the rubble of the World Trade Center. President George W. Bush and his capable team of national security advisors were weighing strike options to repay the terrorist murderers in kind tenfold -- once adequately identified -- as Congress moved first to allay concerns of victims and their families, then planned a vote in the next 24 hours to grant the President congressional authorization for the use of force against the perpetrators of this "act of war." In a vote later today, the House is expected to approve $40 billion to combat terrorism and assist in recovery efforts in the latest attack, twice the amount Mr. Bush had asked. In a few days, the central government will implement one of two military response models. We could see a replay of the Clinton/Gore model: Rattle sabers! Bomb a few "terrorist camps" (AKA goat herder tents) with film at eleven (preferably on the day of a presidential impeachment vote). Bow to the UN. Implement useless diplomatic sanctions and negotiate for an arrest and future trial for "crimes" committed -- should suspects ever be apprehended. Or, our preference -- the Reagan/Bush model: Issue an ultimatum and if not met, bomb the perpetrators and their state suppliers into the next galaxy. There is much talk about increased security measures -- few of which will actually mitigate the ability of terrorists to act with impunity. Civil libertarians argue that the current crisis should not be used to further erode our individual liberty and freedom. Indeed, increased physical "security measures" will not stop terrorism. We already have all manner of domestic security measures, and yet four commercial aircraft were hijacked in one hour Tuesday morning. Moving parking lots further from terminals and adding minimum wage "security guards" will not stop this kind of terror. These zealots did not parachute out of those planes before they crashed. They flew them into their targets. A free republic cannot protect itself from this type of terror by adding security layers at airports. Increasing airport security will do nothing to prevent a well-planned aerosol dispensing of anthrax spores at a Super Bowl game -- or any of the other nuclear, biological or chemical threats. We must strike the nations that harbor these terrorists and strike them hard. Let us reiterate: The first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 was a wake-up call, one which we failed to heed sufficiently. On Tuesday, terrorism reached U.S. soil with a vengeance heretofore unknown. Our most serious problem right now is that the gaping holes in our intelligence and military capacity to detect and thwart attacks have been exposed -- and the usual suspects are, as usual, not circumspect! We must give their host nations "incentives" to fill the gaping holes in our intelligence profiles on terrorist cell activities -- and we are not talking about foreign aid. Mr. Bush and Congress have this power, fired with the will of the American people behind them at this historic moment -- motivated by the horror we all witnessed Tuesday. But the "Bush administration" remains stacked with Clintonistas while senior Bush nominations are being held hostage in the Senate. The cognizant departments of government upon which Mr. Bush is dependent for a uniform response -- particularly the State Department -- are suffering bureaucratic paralysis due to competing worldviews at their policy-making levels. Adding to the diplomatic paralysis, Leftists in Congress, while being cautious to look bipartisan by circumnavigating their anti-American rhetoric, are busy seeding dissension. For example, masquerading under the "reap what you sow" theory, complaints are emerging that because Osama bin Laden was once linked to an organization supported by the CIA during the Afghan war with the Soviets, somehow one should conclude that the CIA is culpable for Tuesday's attacks and we "brought it on ourselves." (Expect to hear that mantra repeated more boldly in the coming weeks.) Indeed, bin Laden was, in a roundabout way, supported by the CIA in the 1980's. Heir to a large fortune, the Saudi went to Afghanistan as a mercenary to fight the Soviets in 1979. In 1984, he was commanding the Maktab al-Khidamar (the MAK), which served as a conduit to funnel money, arms and fighters to the Afghan resistance. To suggest bin Laden is a better terrorist for having served as an Afghan freedom fighter may be true. That notwithstanding, to suggest he is a better terrorist because the CIA once supported Afghan freedom fighters is pure nescience. What is unfortunate is that we did not do a better job of retaining bin Laden on our payroll! There is always a risk that a recruit will blowback -- reverse his or her allegiance -- but that is not to suggest that the CIA is somehow culpable for that reversal -- much less the terror he has been raining on U.S. interests in the last decade. As you may recall, we also supported Iraq in their war against Iran. There were sound reasons in our national interests for this support, but this prior relationship could hardly be blamed for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait -- leading to the Gulf War. If we made a mistake, it was that we did not kill Saddam and bin Laden when we were through with them. Ah, but on that last point, as we noted in June, Friend of The Federalist Rep. Bob Barr has proposed legislation -- the "Terrorist Elimination Act of 2001" -- which kinda sounds to us like it might fit Osama really well. To wit, the legislation states: "Congress finds that -- past Presidents have issued Executive orders which severely limit the use of the military when dealing with potential threats against the United States of America; these Executive orders limit the swift, sure, and precise action needed by the United States to protect our national security; present strategy allows the military forces to bomb large targets hoping to eliminate a terrorist leader, but prevents our country from designing a limited action which would specifically accomplish that purpose; on several occasions the military has been ordered to use a military strike hoping, in most cases unsuccessfully, to remove a terrorist leader who has committed crimes against the United States; as the threat from terrorism grows, America must continue to investigate effective ways to combat the menace posed by those who would murder American citizens simply to make a political point; and actions by the United States Government to remove such persons is a remedy which should be used sparingly and considered only after all other reasonable options have failed or are not available; however, this is an option our country must maintain for cases in which international threats cannot be eliminated by other means." "The grief and mourning all of us are feeling today must be balanced by our resolve to identify and take action against those responsible for these despicable and cowardly acts," said Rep. Barr. "I call on Congress and the president to immediately pass and sign into law the Terrorist Elimination Act." So does The Federalist! There is a $5 million reward offered "for information leading directly to the apprehension or conviction of Osama Bin Laden." Pass Mr. Barr's legislation and expand the terms of that reward to include, "Dead or Alive." The reliable constitutionalist Rep. Barr will today introduce draft legislation for a congressional declaration of war: "Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (that) pursuant to Article 1, section 8 of the United States Constitution, the Congress hereby declares that a state of war exists." The declaration authorizes the use of "the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the United States Government to carry on war" against "any entity that committed the acts of international terrorism against the United States on September 11, 2001, or commits acts of international terrorism against the United States thereafter" and "any country or entity that has provided or provides support or protection for any entity." "This resolution is a firm and deliberate statement by the Congress that we fully support the President of the United States in any efforts he might take against those terrorist organizations, as well as those who sponsor them, who have attacked our nation," Barr said. "We will not bring these terrorists to justice, we will bring them to their knees, and in doing so, ensure that they never again have the will or the ability to attack our nation." Apparently, Mr. Barr and his cosponsors are also advocates of the Reagan/Bush model for responding to attacks on our countrymen! Quote of the week... "Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: 'Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me'." --President George Bush. On cross-examination... "If we can't protect our national security, how can we protect Social Security?" --Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) The BIG lie... "Bush and his network of Cold War hawks have pushed their bloated missile schemes at the expense of nearly every other type of military funding -- including intelligence. Over the years, underfunding and under support has lead to a serious decline in the efficiency of our national intelligence system." --Democrats.com **Memo to Demos: President Bush has not been in office for "years." Open Query... "The 'long peace' is over. We sought this war no more than we sought war with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan or cold war with the Soviet Union. But when war was pressed upon the greatest generation, it rose to the challenge. The question is: Will we?" --Charles Krauthammer Among all the examples of individual sacrifice rising from the ashes of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a crash site in the woods of Pennsylvania, one example adequately demonstrates the real American spirit -- the kind of courage and resolve that our national leaders need to emulate. After phoning his wife to tell her his plane was being hijacked, and upon being told that two other hijacked planes had already been used in devastating attacks on the twin towers in lower Manhattan, Mr. Thomas Burnett, a passenger on United Airline Flight 93, led a group of passengers against the hijackers, preventing them from using their aircraft to exact additional carnage. Deena Burnett, widow of passenger Thomas Burnett, said, "We may never know exactly how many helped him or exactly what they did, but I have no doubt that airplane was bound for some landmark and that whatever Tom did and whatever the guys who helped him did they saved many more lives. And I'm so proud of him and so grateful." And last, leading up to President Bush's proclamation of a National Day of Prayer, we recall again the majority leaders of both congressional houses and a host of their colleagues calling on God's blessing for our nation and singing "God Bless America." And the next evening, assembled members of Congress, led by the House and Senate chaplains, participated in a Capitol prayer vigil for the mass victims of Tuesday's assassins. Ironically, though these highest of elected officials can pray freely, in fact, lead prayer on government property, the same "right" has been denied millions of children in government schools around the country. But in the same week in which our children witnessed unimaginable horror, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist dismissed a motion filed by the ACLU seeking to block students in Virginia schools from participating in a "moment of silence" approved by the Virginia legislature. "After more than a year of operation, the Virginia statute providing for a moment of silence seems to have meant just that," Justice Rehnquist wrote, refuting the ACLU's claim that giving children any opportunity to pray on government property -- even in silence -- is a violation of the erroneous "wall of separation" doctrine. The ACLU and the rest of those, who worship at the altar of secular humanism, need to be reminded that "government property" is our property. ______----********O********----______ UPRIGHT (Part 2) And from the field: "When you go to war, you have a whole new set of rules. You can blockade, you can use force, and you communicate to other governments...that the United States is now serious; that killing our men, women and children, killing people in our cities, will never be accepted." --Newt Gingrich "I firmly believe that, if we don't stop them now, they will come after us again. And the situation, as grim and as horrible as it was on September the 11th, could be much worse in the future in the United States." --Rep. Virgil Goode (I-VA) "Those who died as a result of these cowardly acts will not have died in vain. In their names, and in the name of every man, woman, and child in America we will see that punishment is swift and sure." --Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) "Make no mistake about it, international terrorism is as much a threat to America as any foreign despot plotting our demise." --Rep. Tom Tancredo, (R-CO) "This is not crime. This is war. One of the reasons there are terrorists out there capable and audacious enough to carry out the deadliest attack on the United States in its history is that, while they have declared war on us, we have in the past responded (with the exception of a few useless cruise missile attacks on empty tents in the desert) by issuing subpoenas." --Charles Krauthammer "Tough words will not be enough. A single retaliatory strike will not suffice. There needs to be a decision by free nations everywhere to rid the planet of people and organizations that engage in such acts. The first step -- even before military action is contemplated or taken -- is to expel from this country the people and organizations tied to radical terrorist groups in the Middle East." --Cal Thomas "Let nobody think that Americans are incapable of facing this foe and defeating him.... We shall rise to this. We shall take our revenge. We shall absorb these blows, and strike back a hundred times harder. Let America's enemies crow today: Tomorrow they will tremble, and weep." --John Derbyshire "Americans are slow to anger but mighty when angry and their proper anger now should be alloyed with pride. They are targets because of their virtues -- principally democracy, and loyalty to those nations which, like Israel, are embattled salients of our virtues in a still-dangerous world." --George Will "Those who have perpetrated these acts are waging war against the United States. This is not simply terrorism; it is a determined assault aimed at destroying a free society using instruments of mass destruction against which there is, for all intents and purposes, no sure defense -- notably, hijacked commercial airliners. Even greater than the threat to our people and property is the prospect that, with the unleashing of these Pearl Harbor-style bolts-from-the-blue, the civil liberties and freedoms we have taken for granted for so long -- and that make America the unique and great nation it is -- may never be quite the same." --Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. "Tomorrow, as we attempt to reconstruct our world, let us resolve not to lose sight of the things that are important.... Let us resolve to keep our minds focused on the things that draw us together, on the things that endure, on the things that count -- faith, family, and freedom." --Ken Connor "As for the U.S. response to the September 11 attackers, it should be fierce and unrelenting, serving the cause that animates virtually all just wars: establishing the peace in a way that half-measures and wishful negotiations never can." --Rich Lowry "There's a lot of talk in Washington right now about unity -- and particularly about setting aside partisan squabbles. But plenty of divisions lie just beneath the surface of this bland rhetoric." --National Review Online "It is the big media and the hack politicians that led us to this nightmarish day." --Christopher Ruddy "Make no mistake about it, those people who find joy amidst our suffering are the cheerleaders who keep international terrorism alive." --Rabbi Marvin Hier "Immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, the President of the United States declared war on all of the Axis powers because the U.S. at that time recognized that all of them were accomplices in the threat against the United States. We now know which countries sponsor, support, and harbor terrorists. They are Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, and Libya. It is time for the United States to declare war against these powers and to immediately strike against the tyranny that reigns on their shores." --Michael Savage "In the rage and mourning following Tuesday's disaster, few officials wanted to dwell on how a 10-year hiatus of airline hijackings in this country could be followed by four in one hour." --Robert Novak "This is not an enemy to be underestimated." --Strafor Global Intelligence "The likely victims of our war against terrorism are the Constitution and the Bill of Rights." --Paul Craig Roberts "The media is dead wrong when it says this proves we don't need missile defense. Soon, the same countries that supported these terrorists that just attacked us will have missiles capable of hitting the U.S. We need to defend against their use." --Admiral Thomas H. Moorer -- PUBLIUS -- *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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