-Caveat Lector- >From TheNewAustralian http://www.newaus.com.au/us135china.html > Return to The New Australian > > > It couldn't happen here, could it? > > > By *Larry Elgin > No. 135, 27 Sept. - 4 Oct. 1999 > > Not too long ago, on 28 July, 1999, an interagency Panamanian police force > seized a cache of heavy weapons at a waterfront home located just minutes in > driving time from the Canal on the Atlantic side. The haul included 30 assault > rifles, including G-3’s, M-16’s and FAL’s, a couple of rocket launchers, a 7.62 > caliber machine gun (PKM) with 106 boxes of ammo containing 700 rounds each, a > submachine gun, a couple of Chinese grenade launchers, with grenades, and some > flares and scopes. The home was the property of a Panamanian originally from > Italy. A combination of Panamanian police groups had had their eye on it. The > brother of the owner is a high officer in a wharf group that operates the Colon > Port terminal which not too long ago was cited by Panamanian legislator Miguel > Bush as a conduit for arms traffic. Presumably, the account in El Panama America > by Enrique Watts Rios said, the arms came into Panama from Colombia, declining > to reveal more about the police sources of this particular information. > > This is a confluence of events that could alarm an American observer if he were > to take seriously the warning constantly given, in his Panama Canal testimony > and elsewhere, by U.S. Defense — American Victory Honorary Chairman, Admiral Tom > Moorer, that we must assess our strategic situation, not by what a potential > strategic foe signals by way of intentions, but rather by what it has the > capacity to do should it so choose. Thus, a seemingly minor incident of this > sort, but one which demonstrates sufficient armament in place to enable the > destruction and crippling of the Panama Canal, perhaps by something so simple as > a ride in a cigarette boat, when coupled with overtones of high level Panamanian > ties to communist Chinese dominated entities, Colombia with its drug lords and > perhaps even other illicit ties, is cause for closer scrutiny. As Admiral Moorer > has pointed out, we must be concerned with a potential foe’s capabilities, not > his presumed intentions to use them or not. > > The fact that Fidel Castro has personally assured Bill Clinton that the > communists are not involved with the narcotrafficantes, for example, is not > reassuring from a strategic perspective. Quite the opposite, it should increase > our interest in determining whether there is an alliance of convenience between > the communists of China (who have dramatically increased their presence in > Castro’s Cuba as well as in Panama) and the drug lords, or whether one is in the > offing, with the Colombian FALN, for example, as a conduit of the cooperation. > It is not just that surely Fidel’s word is as good as Bill’s. A connection > between Chinese communist strategic intentions and the ever more threatening > presence of heavy arms with Colombian connections in the Canal area is > sufficiently alarming as an immediate possibility, given the abject failure of > our "war" on drugs, that it should not readily be dismissed as sheer > coincidence. Instead of heightened curiosity and examination of the possibility, > however, we see the usual stonewalling, blithe assurances of irrelevance and > determination to see that this important question is not examined. > > After all, we haven’t even been able to get assurances in this administration > that the White House itself is a drug free zone, and there is every sign that > from its beginning efforts were made at the highest levels to assure that it was > not. Yet anyone who has ever dealt with the narcotics problem knows that even > so-called "leisure" drug usage is a target for penetration and control by > opposing forces. Should such penetration and control not only involve the drug > traffickers themselves, who are now sufficiently wealthy to exceed the gross > national product of some of the Latin American nations they plague, but also the > communist Chinese in concert with Fidel Castro, then the problem of an > irreversible compromise of national security becomes quite immediate. > > For the drug lords already have such power, not only in Columbia but also in > Mexico, and, under the PRD, in Panama itself, (combined with their resurgence in > Peru, their power in Ecuador and the other anti-democratic trends in the area > under this administration) that, should they have such an alliance, (even one of > convenience,) they thereby become a strategic threat as much as communist China > itself, albeit a proxy one, able to threaten commerce and shipping and make > military intervention, such as is presently talked of in Colombia as a > possibility, highly costly and marginally effective. We had best be careful not > to get ourselves into a situation where we are attempting to project military > force far from our shores against not one but two opponents who have or may have > penetrated the present presidency to an extent which would compromise that > effort. We should not send people to fight with this unnerving possibility in > their rear. The questions need to be looked into quickly and effectively. The > Chinese are anciently skilled in the use of such proxies. > > The story is told of a physician to one of the Lord’s of ancient China, a man > whose name at the time was synonymous with medicine among the Chinese nobles and > who was from a family whose members had been healers for generations. Which of > your family, he was asked, is the most proficient at healing? My eldest brother, > he is said to have replied, can sense the spirit of illness before it even has > formed and is thus little known outside of our house back in our village. My > elder brother can cure illness when it has barely begun and is, accordingly, > little known outside our village. I, on the other hand, he said, give people > strong medicines, manipulate their skin and organs vigorously and even puncture > their blood vessels so I am known greatly among the nobles of China . > > This was from Thomas Cleary’s insightful introduction to his equally excellent > translation of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. It is by way of opening his powerful > exposition of the connection between Chinese strategic concepts and practices > and the Taoist tradition, in which the best way to defeat and enemy is to not > have to fight him at all but to instead make it so that others undertake that > which, in combination with his greed and tendency to anger, renders him unable > to conduct the battle which would resist your conquest. It is harder to think of > a more promising target for these ancient skills than our present leadership. > > And so you will note that the Chinese communist leaders today, for example, > having stolen our missile and nuclear technology, (or perhaps simply having > brought them from a President and minions willing to betray their country) do > not rush to build a great many rockets as we and the soviets did. Sixteen to > twenty-four will do. That is, of course, provided that you disperse the > technology out among those who will do the job of making America face many > threats for you, and engage in war by other means, that, imperceptible to the > American public, neutralizes our technological superiority in present > traditional warfare. How much more in the Taoist to not even really rely upon > missiles at all, except as a diversion from where the subtle conquest by "not > fighting" is really moving forward — at the crucial lines of supply. Bedazzled > and distracted by the audacious theft or purchase of our most vital strategic > technological know-how, we pay no attention to the anaconda coiling around us > without fanfare. > > The narcotrafficantes, the eternal revolutionists of Latin America, the > gangsters whom they have allied with in the rest of the world, the aging leaders > of the Chinese communist party, desperate to hang onto power, all want to > destroy that America, which, as John Adams said afterwards, was created in the > 20 years leading to our Revolution, not on the battlefields which then became > the focus, but in the hearts and minds of those who founded us and wrote our > principles eternally into the souls of those who love liberty. — and were and > are willing to fight to preserve it. Their potential for use as a proxy in the > ancient tradition of Sun Tzu’s precepts is such that it must be examined. > > The even more dangerous possibility is the combination of such a proxy effort > with Bill Clinton’s loathing of our military. There is now incontrovertible > proof that he has, at the very least, shown suspect judgment in dealing with > known PLA operatives and agents, including campaign donors from (ironically for > a child of the 1960"s) this greatest military industrial complex the world has > ever known. He is a fertile target for the subtle practitioner. His well-known > temper, his willingness to be bought, his intemperate hunger for immediate > satisfaction, all are the perfect invitation for the unnoticed potions of the > Taoist thinkers of the PLA. They, like the elder brother, appear to be using > potions of an ancient style of warfare that are little noticed outside of their > own village, and our President is the ideal target for such use. > > While so many eyes are on the dazzling thefts of high technology, even as we > speak, the elements are now in place by which the Chinese communists, those 250 > to 300 aging bureaucratic killers of the Party High Councils, and their 3 to 5 > thousand followers in the key party cadres, in order to distract form their own > failures and the great unrest now sweeping china, could conquer the 21 million > free people of Chinese ancestry on Taiwan and subject them also to slavery. For > if we should dare to actually do something about it (and we are not talking here > about the type of response which the PLA itself orchestrated with the White > House in the Straits of Taiwan in 1996 through Mr. Trie, the former fry-cook.), > despite the bought and sold pusillanimity of Mr. Clinton and so many "leaders" > of Congress, something so simple as a quick trip in a cigarette speedboat in > Panama could cause all of our forward deployed "superpower" carrier groups to be > down to iron bombs in less than a week. And we could simultaneously find > ourselves faced with an endless low-level conflict in our own underbelly that > simultaneously ties up thousands of military personnel in dealing with drug and > terrorist gangs, even as our opponents, the drug lords, do ever increasing > damage to the pool of manpower from which we draw those personnel, and, most > importantly, to that reservoir of moral strength which, until we succumbed to > the policy, particularly in the 1960s, of "undeclared" wars, was our greatest > strength in the face of armed threats to our liberty. > > But these things could never happen, right? Only a paranoid conservative > (particularly one seeking to move forward our founding values) could actually > imagine that a strategic opponent would so cheaply and efficiently gain victory > over us. Besides, who would know about it and how it was done? What movies could > be made; what anchors could be allowed to posture; what Pulitzers could be won? > Only that vast "right wing" cares. > > Have a smoke, pressies, and go back to sleep. But we would appreciate it if you > would stop pretending that you are informing the public. Some of us choose to be > concerned with actual possibilities rather than presumed intentions and for us, > thank heaven, an alternative has arisen — the Internet, talk radio and other > newer forms of media. If the real possibilities are to be examined, they will > have to lead the way. > > *Larry Elgin has been a lawyer in Washington for many years and is the President > of U.S. Defense — American Victory, the affirmative action litigating non-profit > for those who believe that the best defense for America is an offense for > America’s founding principles. In the 1970’s, at a time when many major > corporations were attempting to use business methods to deal with social > problems, he managed research and operations projects dealing with the drug > problem for an American Standard subsidiary. E-mail Larry Elgin. 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