War and Politics
The Evil We’ve Been Spared
December 31, 2003
In an unpublished article about the 2003 TV premiere week (before I joined Mens’ News Daily), one of the shows that I featured was “Threat Matrix”. That show features stories “ripped from the headlines”. The recurring theme of the show is that the general public will never know the evil that we’ve been spared, thanks to the work of this team of super secret agents.
Real teams of agents, investigators, analysts, and patrolmen work every day — both overtly and covertly — to protect America. They work for many of the “alphabet soup” Federal agencies — plus state, county, and local police departments, and many private security companies. Some of their work is necessarily secret. Some of it comes to the surface. Sometimes, a “routine” incident can have other hidden factors, which might lead to terrorism. (The driver in this taxi crash was going about 100mph into a convenience-store parking lot, missed a gasoline pump by two or three feet, went airborne, and his car impacted a sign pole about six feet off the ground. I personally observed the front section of the car’s frame wrapped completely around the metal pole. A witness at the scene told me that the driver, a Nigerian national, had at least one bullet wound when he was put in the ambulance. The medical examiner’s office never returned my call for confirmation and further information.)
In a press event in Nashville on Tuesday, retired Army four-star general Wesley Clark made one of the most ridiculous statements in modern political history. This man, who definitely should have known better, actually stated about the War on Terrorism, “...we didn't have to fight [the war] didn't have anything to do with Osama Bin Laden ....”
Hello! (note the date)
This is not just any presidential candidate; although, I would hope that any candidate would have the good sense to check his information before such a speech. This is a man that had been the Supreme Commander of NATO. Even in the public news reports, we saw that our forces were involved in cave-clearing operations, in search of bin-Laden’s elusive al-Qaida. Imagine how much more information General Clark can access; but, he chose to make such an outlandish statement. What reason could this “other man from Little Rock” have for attempting to mislead voters?
Political analysts have speculated that General Clark is actually the point-man for another secret operation: the “non-campaign” of Hillary Clinton for the presidency. Will Clark throw himself on a political land mine to pave the way for Hillary’s juggernaut? If so, will he be rewarded with the job of Secretary of Defense? If so, would he commit the will and resources necessary to defend America? Would he have the will to take the war to the doorstep of the terrorists? If Hillary is elected president, would she bring back Janet Reno as attorney general? Considering the well-known Clinton “loathing” of the military, what would happen to our military budget under Hillary and/or Clark? What would happen to the budgets for all those agents, investigators, analysts, and patrolmen? What will (or, more correctly, won’t) happen to Osama bin-Laden?
In one of the greatest exercises of individual power in history, American voters will go to the polls next November and choose the next President of the United States. Much blood has been shed to maintain that right, and to shine freedom’s light to the rest of the world. We can choose a president that thinks America is worth fighting for; or, we can choose a former general that doesn’t seem to think so. To me, the choice is obvious.
And, hopefully, we’ll realize the evil we’ve been spared.
