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In September 1929, \"the Roaring Twenties,\" \"the Era of Wonderful
Nonsense,\" of sex, booze and jazz, ended with the stock market crash that began
the Great Depression. There followed the \"low dishonest decade\" of poet W. H.
Auden\'s depiction, as Western statesmen sought to appease their way to security
and peace.
On Sept. 11, 2001, as the 767s smashed into the twin towers
of the World Trade Center and Pentagon, killing 5,000 Americans, another
unserious era of sex scandals and stock market silliness came to an end.
Recall, if you will, the summer of 2001. The story that had CNN, MSNBC
and FOX News transfixed was the saga of Gary Condit. Nightly, talk-show hosts
demanded answers to the great questions: Why did Gary throw away the watch box?
Where did stewardess Anne Marie Smith spend her D.C. nights? By Sept. 11, the
story seemed about to end in a great courtroom drama, with Anne Marie charging
Gary with libel – for denying she committed adultery.
What will the
decade be remembered for? The Trial of O. J.? Who killed Jon-Benet Ramsey? The
Oval Office trysts of Bill and Monica? Condit summer? Meanwhile, not to worry
about the world. For America is \"the last superpower,\" the \"indispensable
nation.\" The New Economy will take us to \"Dow 36,000!\" \"Pax Americana\" and
\"Global Democracy\" are our destiny.
On Sept. 11, the frivolous era
came to an end. Suddenly, for the first time since Gen. Jackson drove the
British army out of Louisiana, the enemy was inside the gates, slaughtering
thousands.
Why? Because we adopted an open-borders policy that left tens
of millions of illegal aliens wandering about America, few of whom had any
loyalty to us, some of whom were willing to murder us on the orders of their
foreign masters. To keep the cost of labor down, we let millions of strangers,
and not a few enemies, into our home. Never before has America been so
vulnerable, and corporate greed and craven politics did it to us.
Tuesday, the U.S. reported that industrial production fell for the 12th
straight month. Bethlehem Steel became the latest U.S. company to go Chapter 11.
U.S. factories now produce at 75 percent of capacity. Last year, the U.S. trade
deficit in manufactureds hit $324 billion and the merchandise trade deficit $450
billion. The de-industrialization of America is well advanced.
In a
triumph of the globalists, America has become again what she has not been in
generations: a dependent nation. For the loss of our economic independence, we
may thank the free-trade-uber-alles crowd. They tell us their high principles
prevent them from saving the U.S. industries their policies are designed to
kill. But, routinely, they loot our tax dollars to bail out their banker friends
and foreign collaborators from Indonesia to Russia to Argentina.
With
the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the U.S. had a chance to dissolve old Cold
War alliances and adopt an America First policy of non-intervention in wars that
were none of our business. Instead, we launched the Gulf War, expanded NATO to
Russia\'s border, went nation-building in Somalia, invaded Haiti, plunged into
the Balkans, smashed Serbia and imposed sanctions that may have killed half a
million Iraqis. Today, U.S. war commitments in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the
Gulf, Central Asia and the Taiwan Strait exceed those of Ronald Reagan. Yet, Mr.
Bush has only half the Army, Navy and Air Force Mr. Reagan had. Never has
America been so over-extended.
How has the American Empire profited the
American people? Only the Brits are with us in Afghanistan, and they will take a
pass on the next war planned by our war hawks: The invasion of Iraq. Meanwhile,
once-friendly regimes from Jordan to Malaysia squirm to distance themselves from
\"the indispensable nation.\"
With the FBI warning of a 100 percent
chance of terrorist attacks, with anthrax scares shutting down Congress, with
daily calls to curtail civil liberties, questions arise: Are we more or less
free and secure than when we began to build this \"New World Order\"? Are we
better off now than we were before we ignored our founding fathers and decided
to go abroad \"in search of monsters to destroy\"?
The president has
moved with great prudence in the Afghan war. Let us go in, get them, get out and
go home – and let the Arab and Islamic world work out its own destiny. But of
this we may be sure: History will hold the globalists and latter-day
imperialists of left and right accountable. Their epitaph is already written:
\"On the altar of global empire, they sacrificed their country.\"
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