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		<title>Marks of Weakness, Marks of Woe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama’s deadly plague of strategic incompetence.]]></description>
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<p>The William Blake poem from which this column takes its title lamented the effects of syphilis on London’s population—but the lifted line also describes the wasting disease of strategic incompetence with which the Obama administration has infected our foreign policy.  The primary difference seems to be that Georgian Londoners at least had some fun early in the process, while this administration’s performance has been excruciating from the start.</p>
<p>Is there a single world leader remaining who respects President Obama?  Certainly, none fear him.  He established himself as a strategic pushover more swiftly than any president in history—even allowing for the near-record times clocked by Presidents Carter and Clinton (to be fair, Clinton at least had the slickness to wheedle the occasional advantage from his foreign counterparts).  Right up to the final days of the Bush administration, rogue states stepped lightly, casting a careful eye at Washington over their hunched shoulders.  Today, the world’s worst actors are playing Dictators Gone Wild.</p>
<p>With the ratification late last year of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), the administration hit its lowest point thus far, giving the Russians everything they wanted, while getting nothing in return that Moscow wasn’t happy to discard.  Obama got to wave a signed treaty, declaring it a diplomatic triumph.  For his part, Russia’s new czar, Vladimir Putin, gained recognition for his two-bit dictatorship as a superpower equal to the US.  Instead of measuring our arsenal against the sum of global dangers, No-Nukes Obama reduced it to the size of Russia’s, pretending that China and the growing number of nuclear rogue states don’t exist as additional threats—and even letting Russia keep 1,500 tactical nuclear weapons for which we no longer have equivalents.  Obama also gave away dual-use systems that would be essential in a conflict with Beijing.  This particular strip-tease was all strip on our side, all tease on Putin’s, a mortifying example of unilateral disarmament by a president who still despises the military.  Mere days after the Senate foolishly ratified this treaty and Obama signed it, Putin—howling with delight—mooned Obama by imposing a fresh prison term on political prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky.  Some re-set.</p>
<p>As for China, one fears that Obama’s upcoming head-of-state meeting will reach new heights of appeasement.  While claiming that he’s concerned about American job losses, this president will do nothing to halt Beijing’s myriad trade abuses.  He will not take a stand against currency manipulation that’s bankrupted countless US manufacturers and swelled our jobless rolls.  He will not take a stand against Chinese industrial (and military) espionage.  He will not take a stand against extensive Chinese dumping of goods on our market.  He will not take a stand against Chinese piracy of intellectual property.  And he certainly won’t stand up for Chinese dissidents, Christians or grass-roots reformers.  The Chinese will toss him a few stale fortune cookies—and our president will return home delighted, holding in his hand a piece of paper that looks suspiciously like a Chinese menu.</p>
<p>But China’s a big player, and Russia does still have a strategic arsenal.  A president does have to handle them gingerly.  The humiliating thing is that even the likes of Hugo Chavez have pegged Obama as a narcissistic weakling.  With this administration adamantly unwilling to criticize abusive leftwing regimes in Latin America, we now have the looming destruction of Nicaragua’s democracy; family-mafia rule in Argentina; an incompetent demagogue ravaging (what little is left to ravage in) Bolivia; and Chavez running his murderous dictatorship with Cuban intelligence personnel, while flirting with Iran’s offer to provide him with missiles that can strike US soil.  There will be no replay of the Cuban Missile Crisis, either, because Obama would not send our Navy to prevent a missile transfer—it might be against the law.  Oh, and Chavez just contracted for $5-billion in arms—a record for Latin America—from Russia: Yet another re-set benefit, one supposes.</p>
<p>Even Sub-Saharan Africa doesn’t take Obama seriously.  The bloodstained chieftain of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has given up his pretense of power-sharing, while China bribes the continent’s power-brokers to let Beijing rape the continent of its minerals and rob its people of even primitive justice.  And when Muslims slaughtered Christians in Nigeria on Christmas Eve, the White House had no comment (which, of course, is better than yet another repetition of the mantra that “Islam is a religion of peace”).</p>
<p>Then there’s the greater Middle East, which Obama expected to win over with his groveling, dishonest, destructive Cairo speech praising Islam, attacking Israel, and re-writing American history.  Muslims were, indeed, flattered that an American president would kiss the soles of their feet.  But they also knew that Obama was full of ca-ca.  Lack of a Harvard or University of Chicago degree does not mean hundreds of millions of Muslims are stupid.  They knew Obama didn’t know what he was talking about.  They know the historical score.  They even know the real deal regarding Israel, although they dare not admit it publicly.  Obama offered them strategic baby-talk.  And they nailed him as a strategic baby.</p>
<p>What grand results has Obama obtained across the Middle East with his gushing praise for a religion in moral retrograde and his refusal to couple the words “Islamist” and “terrorist?”  Iran is more aggressive than it’s been in decades—and pursuing nuclear weapons.  Iranian influence in Iraq and interference in Afghanistan have burgeoned.  Sanctions complicate the lives of the average Iranian, but the country’s leaders are doing just fine, thanks.  And Iran’s surrogates have grown bolder again, with Hezbollah launching a political coup in Lebanon and terrorists in Gaza quietly building their arsenal.</p>
<p>Egypt staged a phony election that would have embarrassed the Cold-War-era Soviets and responded weakly and reluctantly to attacks on Coptic Christians.  Tunisia is wracked with riots as I write.  Al Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM) haunts a vast region from Algiers to Timbuktu.  And Somalia is a chamber of horrors, whose top exports are terrorists and pirates—both of whom this administration insists should be dealt with in civil courts on American soil.</p>
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		<title>The Other (Endless) Massacre</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ralph Peters]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tucson tragedy eclipses minority murders.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Visit <a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/">FamilySecurityMatters.org</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Since  Saturday, our media have reveled in the aftermath of the  avoidable  slaughter in Tucson, where a young madman&#8211;ignored by  “tolerant” social,  educational and law-enforcement  systems—gunned  down, among others, a federal judge and a nine-year-old  girl, while  gravely wounding a Congresswoman reaching out to her  constituents.</p>
<p>Caught  out in his incompetence, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima  County,  Arizona, railed against conservatives, who the “lawman” blamed  for the  massacre on his turf. Other leftists rushed to blame the Tea  Party  (conveniently overlooking the murderer’s internet claim that <em>The Communist</em> <em>Manifesto </em>was one of his favorite books—oops!).</p>
<p>The  fact is that the shooter wasn’t a political creature, but a   psychopath. And a hyper-liberal social climate allowed him to go   unchecked, despite no end of warning signs and documented complaints  from his fellow citizens.</p>
<p>Meanwhile,  another massacre occurred on the doorstep of our nation’s  capital, but  the media and left-wing activists ignored it: In the  first eleven days of 2011, eleven people were gunned down in Prince  George’s County, Maryland. <em>Their</em> deaths were irrelevant to the political discourse—because they were black.</p>
<p>We  do, indeed, have a violence problem and an intolerable culture of  the  gun in this country. But it has nothing to do with honest citizens  who  go hunting every autumn. It’s a creation of the Democratic Party,  which  will take no serious measures to impose the rule of law and  foster  quality education systems in minority-populated districts,  preferring to  keep blacks and Latinos down on their electoral  plantations.</p>
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		<title>The Left&#8217;s Embrace of Murderous Fantasies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 04:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new book deconstructs the cult-like thrall to which leftists enthusiastically submit.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Visit <a href="http://www.wnd.com/">WorldNetDaily</a>.</strong></p>
<p>If our extreme left maintained a kill-or-capture list for the morning  after the revolution (before they started arresting and executing each  other), the 30 subjects interviewed in &#8220;<a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/books/Showdown-With-Evil-Our-Struggle-Against-Tyranny-and-Terror-Paperback">Showdown with Evil</a>&#8221;  would fill out the top of its roster. In the left&#8217;s view, the  conservative and stubbornly independent voices captured in this book&#8217;s  rapid-fire chapters are guilty of crimes against inanity on two counts:  Not only are they boldly, proudly and deliciously politically incorrect,  but – far worse – their positions are based on facts, common sense and a  positive view of the United States of America.</p>
<p>The left&#8217;s problem with Guantanamo has never been what it is –  leftists adore a good prison camp – but with who we put in it. The  campus thought-police would love to round up and incarcerate these  interviewees, who range from the courageous (Brigitte Gabriel, for  example), through the venerable (Norman Podhoretz and the late William  F. Buckley, Jr.), to the magnificently outrageous (Christopher Hitchens,  an independent thinker of ferocious integrity).  Elliot Abrams, Natan  Sharansky, Richard Pipes, David Horowitz and dozens more. Dr. Glazov has  gathered the most impressive collection of thinkers-in-freedom&#8217;s-cause  available in a single volume.</p>
<p>Beginning with a foreword by Richard Perle,  this fine book is especially valuable for those with hectic schedules,  since the reader gets the powerful views of freedom&#8217;s defenders in  distilled form: Glazov is a masterful interviewer who has a great  tactile feel for the form, sometimes letting the subject run, elsewhere  challenging an interviewee to clarify or reinforce his or her positions.  The result is a masterpiece of clarity, pithiness and value.</p>
<p><strong>To continue reading this article, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=244349">click here</a>.</strong></p>
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		<title>Missing Terrorists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, sorry, it's about Islam. 
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<p>Last weekend, the feds popped two more US citizens who yearned to kill their fellow Americans for Allah.  They hoped to join al-Shabab, Somali’s ruthless jihadis, but fantasized about slaughter right here at home.</p>
<p>And, once again, any mention of Islamist extremism was absent from government statements, as if these guys were just angry about parking tickets.</p>
<p>The would-be Times Square car bomber, the guess-what’s-in-my-knickers Christmas Day airline bomber, no end of got-‘em-in-time apprehensions, plus the Ft. Hood butcher, Major Nidal Hasan…and even the media barely hint at what all these fanatics have in common.</p>
<p>Dare to suggest that radical Islam might be to blame, and you’re a bigot.  Just as pointing out that Palestinian terrorism led to Israel’s hard line stand makes you a fascist.  But those who reject radical Islam’s role as the driving force behind today’s terrorism must answer one obvious question:</p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><em>Where are the Christian terrorists?</em></p>
<p>The <em>ignored </em>persecution, deprivation and massacres aren’t in Gaza, the global left’s favorite petting zoo.  The cover-up victims are the Middle East’s Christians.</p>
<p>Set aside for now the <em>vast</em> Christian communities that once thrived between Morocco and Mesopotamia.  The multiple holocausts they suffered for over a thousand years at Muslim hands doesn’t fit the White-House-approved narrative.</p>
<p>Let’s concentrate on today—when the only country left in the Middle East in which Christians enjoy <em>complete</em> freedom of worship, freedom from secret police surveillance, forced conversions, pogroms or civil strife, is Israel.</p>
<p>But that won’t do, either.  Can’t make Israel the good guy.  So how about those “suffering Palestinians?”  You know, the folks that chick-lit Che Guevara, Rachel Corrie, sought to rescue from an Israeli bulldozer…</p>
<p>Well, the Palestinians who’ve suffered the most have been <em>Christians.</em> And it hasn’t been the Israelis who’ve been persecuting them.</p>
<p>Take the West Bank city of Bethlehem, the literal cradle (or manger) of Christianity.  A half century ago, its Arab population was 80% Christian.  Today, Christians make up no more than 15% of the locals, and their numbers continue to shrink.</p>
<p>Throughout the Palestinian territories, the once-vibrant Christian population is estimated to have collapsed to a mere 25,000.  Muslim rapes, murders, kidnappings, extortion, death threats and property theft are to blame.</p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><em>Where are the Christian terrorists?</em></p>
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<p>In neighboring Egypt, Christianity’s intellectual center in its formative centuries, centuries of Islamization reduced, but failed to eliminate the Christian faith.</p>
<p>Coptic Christians, with their ancient traditions, still make up as much as 15% of Egypt’s population, which is nearing 80 million.  But the faith is under siege again.  The Mubarak regime appears to have decided to let its mortal enemy, the Muslim Brotherhood, have some leash in the persecution department.</p>
<p>Copts suffer village pogroms, ghettoization in cities, and kidnappings and forced conversions (often of marriage-age girls).  They’re prevented from constructing new churches and suffer general discrimination.  Killings of Copts go uninvestigated by Egypt’s police.</p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><em>Where are the Christian terrorists?</em></p>
<p>Then there’s Iraq, where a tragic unintended consequence of the removal of Saddam Hussein&#8211;the region’s worst mass murderer&#8211;has been the destruction of ancient Christian communities.</p>
<p>Prior to 2003, there were about a million Christians in Iraq.  Most are now refugees.  Successive Iraqi governments have shown little interest in protecting those who remain.  Leading churchmen have been assassinated, Christian families have been slaughtered, churches have been bombed and burned.  And we’ve done nothing—to avoid irritating Muslims.</p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><em>Where are the Christian terrorists? </em></p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p>Given the excuses made for Islamist terror, shouldn’t we have seen a violent response by now?</p>
<p>Of course, none of this is an issue in Saudi   Arabia, where the Christian (and Jewish) communities that thrived at the dawn of Islam were wiped out centuries ago.  Even Lebanon, long a state where Christians enjoyed religious freedom, suffers from the grim Islamist contagion.</p>
<p>The absence of Christian terrorism in the savagely anti-Christian Middle East goes beyond Christ’s call to “turn the other cheek.”  It further highlights extremist Islam as the source of today’s terror.</p>
<p>But Washington will continue to shut its eyes and bluster about the “legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people,” etc., etc.  Dead Arab Christians are even less important than dead Jews.</p>
<p><em>Ralph Peters’ latest book is “<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/04/16/endless-war-2/">Endless War</a>.”</em></p>
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		<title>National Security Mush</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 04:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A strategy that isn’t a strategy.]]></description>
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<p>President Obama’s so proud of his new National Security Strategy that the White House released it on the eve of a holiday weekend &#8212; when everybody in Washington’s racing for the beach, the ‘burbs or a bunker.</p>
<p>With good reason.  This isn’t a strategy.  It’s a stump speech.</p>
<p>If you want to know what details of a document really matter to any administration, don’t obsess on the text itself.  Listen to the roll-out speeches by the White House sales reps.</p>
<p>Remarks by terror czar John Brennan and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made it painfully clear that it isn’t only our Gulf  Coast shoreline that’s threatened by this administration’s ineptitude and genius for self-delusion.</p>
<p>But Hillary only offered the standard boilerplate about the primacy of diplomacy and development in solving security problems.  (Terrific!  Let’s bring all the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan immediately and let the State Department and NGOs sort things out…).</p>
<p>But Brennan, in full tin-foil-hat mode, was downright scary.  Speaking on Wednesday, he even praised the administration’s response to the BP oil disaster.  Jeez…sycophancy should have legal limits.</p>
<p>Brennan was prepping the pundits on the terrorism side of the NSS.  Except that it’s not really terrorism, you see.  And it’s certainly not <em>Islamist</em> terrorism or a <em>jihad</em>.  Brennan spent an alarming amount of time on indirect apologies to Muslims.  As in:</p>
<p>“Nor do we describe our enemy as jihadists or Islamists because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one’s community.”</p>
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<p><em>What?</em> Does this administration really believe that it gets to re-define jihad?  Sounds like one of its pet Muslim “experts” worked on the speech.  But trust me: When Osama says al-Qaeda’s waging jihad, Muslims believe him, not White-Bread John Brennan.</p>
<p>And by the way: Jihad in Islam <em>usually </em>means aggressive holy war to kill and subjugate infidels.  Check the Islamic texts (you know, the ones Muslims read).  And there’s no pope in Islam who gets to give claims of jihad a thumbs up or down.  If the local yokels declare a jihad, it’s a jihad, boys and girls.</p>
<p>Don’t facts matter at <em>all </em>to this administration?  I guess the 9/11 terrorists were just purifying themselves and their community.</p>
<p>The speech got worse.  Speaking of the Israel-Palestine situation, Brennan employed coded left-wing language when he said that “legitimate grievances can be resolved peacefully through…dialogue.”</p>
<p>In case you missed it, only the Palestinians have “legitimate grievances.”  Then Brennan invoked Obama’s blame-America Cairo speech as at least the equivalent of the Sermon on the Mount.  Okay, Big John: Where are the results?  Iran?  Hezbollah?  Hamas?  Al-Qaeda?  The Taliban?  Syria?</p>
<p>Of course, he called for “collective action,” another left-wing buzz-phrase.  Well, how’s all that collective action been going for this White House?  Got tough sanctions on Iran yet?  Or on North   Korea?  Anybody notice that the Bush administration (boo, hiss, shame!) had more allies fighting beside us in Iraq than Obama has in Afghanistan?</p>
<p>Of course, Brennan, who’s turned into a shameless bootlicker, didn’t miss a chance to hammer Bush-Cheney, the true axis of evil.  As in his claim that <em>his</em> team is “responsibly ending the war in Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11.”</p>
<p>Well, the first point’s doubtful, while the last point depends on whether you’re a little-picture or big-picture thinker.  What’s indisputable is that the invasion did lead to the most catastrophic defeat al-Qaeda has yet suffered, when millions of Sunni <em>Muslims</em> turned on the terrorists.  No mention of that, of course.</p>
<p>Things grew even shabbier when Brennan—our top <em>terrorism</em> guy—spoke of “the senseless slaughter of 13 innocent Americans at Ft.  Hood” as if they had been killed by space invaders.  No mention of Major Hasan, Anwar al-Alaqi, shouts of “Allah is great!” or jihad.</p>
<p>Tireless—at least behind a microphone&#8211;Brennan went back to stressing the importance of “international partnerships.”  Great.  We’re all with you, Big John.  But with who?  The allies Obama has stiffed?  Or was our terror czar speaking of Obama’s unprecedented success in engaging Iran, North Korea, Russia, China and his Venezuelan hug-buddy, Hugo Chavez?</p>
<p>Of course, Breanna didn’t say one word about the terror on our border with Mexico or in our illegal-immigrant-gang-plagued cities.  Nope, our problem’s just with al-Qaeda.  None of whose members are Islamists or jihadists.</p>
<p>Guess I ought to check out the Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Bahais and others in line down at the al-Qaeda recruiting office volunteering to purify their neighborhoods.</p>
<p>Our new National Security Strategy isn’t about security for our nation.  It’s about making our enemies feel good about themselves.  Sure, Brennan said we were going to get al-Qaeda.  But he made it clear that neither he nor our president is willing to recognize what al-Qaeda is.</p>
<p>Of course, that probably depends on what your definition of “is” is.</p>
<p><em> Ralph Peters’ latest book is “<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/04/16/endless-war-2/">Endless War</a>.”</em></p>
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<p>Skyrocketing to the top of the prime-ministerial polls, sleek-but-shallow Brit politician Nicholas Clegg apparently misses Saddam.  And Clegg’s not alone in the resurgent dictators’ fan club.</p>
<p>The shiny young face of the UK’s usually lagging third party, the Liberal Democrats, Clegg may upend British politics in the May 6 elections.  One key to his stunning rise has been his dismissal of the “special relationship” with the US as out of date and worthless.</p>
<p>President Obama’s cool with that, but it’s hard to see who would respect a decoupled-from-Washington UK in the morning.  Anti-Americanism plays well in Britain, though.  (What, no Obama effect?).</p>
<p>Anti-Americanism is the <em>first </em>refuge of the scoundrel.</p>
<p>Still, the real danger from Nick Clegg isn’t that he’s going to change everything, but that, behind the campaign flash, he’s the most ideologically backward party leader Britain’s seen since the 1970s.  He damns Cold-War thinking, even as he wallows in it.</p>
<p>And Clegg isn’t alone.  Around the world, bright-young-thing politicians are turning back the clock.  While fashionably damning nukes, they embrace the worst practices of the past with enthusiasm.</p>
<p>To wit: Clegg made a very public point of calling the intervention in Iraq “illegal.”  To the likes of Clegg (a perfect name for a Dickensian villain), it was <em>legal</em> for Saddam to torture, rape and massacre his own countrymen—under the bloody notion that whatever happens within a country’s borders is that state’s business alone.</p>
<p>Of course, Clegg and Co. also overlook Saddam’s two wars of aggression against neighboring states, while averting their polished gazes from the budding democracy in Iraq.  Clegg’s point is just that “America is bad.”  It’s lazy, destructive—but effective—politics.</p>
<p>Does Clegg truly believe that Saddam deserved to remain in power?  Or that the world would be a better place if he still ruled?</p>
<p>At 43, Clegg’s even younger than our own new-model president.  But the two men have in common a heartbreaking (and bone-breaking) sympathy for murderous dictatorships&#8211;as long as the dictator’s roots are on the left.</p>
<p>The immoral notion that a strongman can seize power, then do anything he wants to his countrymen with impunity because his state’s borders are sacrosanct—what I’ve called “the sovereignty con”&#8211;has excused immeasurable suffering.</p>
<p>President Bush, for all his practical errors, grasped that a genocidal dictator’s claims of sovereignty are bogus, that the only true legitimacy comes from the will of the people.</p>
<p>Bush did a great thing inexcusably badly in Iraq.  Still, for a few years, dictators shaped up.  In the end, though, a critical new ideal—that dictators <em>can</em> be held accountable for their inhumanity—was discredited by incompetence on the ground and the stunning bias of the media—whose propagandists, once suckled by Saddam, would sacrifice the lives of others to “get Bush.”</p>
<p>The Bush-haters won (Congratulations!  Why not visit a few mass graves on your next eco-friendly vacation?).  Now we’re back in the old, monstrous tradition of tolerating dictators.</p>
<p>The establishment media are fine with that.  When a journalist of authentic conscience, such as the Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl, does get into print with a column describing “Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista thugocracy” in Nicaragua, he gets a grand total of six column inches.</p>
<p>Where’s the outrage, either from our elected leaders, or from wannabes such as Clegg, or from the media over Hugo Chavez’s destruction of Venezuela’s once-proud democracy?  At this month’s Nuclear Vanity Summit in D.C., Obama literally embraced Argentina’s corrupt and scheming President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.</p>
<p>Clegg’s pure white-bread, but Obama would be the perfect man to take on African dictators, such as Zimbabwe’s barbarous Robert Mugabe.  And what has our president done for human rights in Africa?  <em>Nothing.</em></p>
<p>This convenient, murderous belief that what happens in Country X stays in Country X condemns <em>billions</em> of human beings to political slavery and, too often, to death.  It means that we continue to pretend that Afghanistan and Somalia are an actual countries, or that the brutal oppression in Eritrea is nobody’s business but that of the country’s dictatorship.  Or that Tehran’s butchers have every right to gun down, imprison, rape and torture protesters.</p>
<p>Well, Nick Clegg, who has an unexpected shot at becoming Britain’s next prime minister, may miss Saddam.  But Iraqis don’t.</p>
<p>As for the US, it seems that the only borders we don’t regard as sacred are our own.</p>
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<p>President Barack Obama’s greatest crime against our flag and the republic for which it stands isn’t his administration’s health-care theft bill.  That’s mere shoplifting compared to what’s coming next.</p>
<p>Obama and the leftwing of the Democratic Party intend to turn ten to eleven million illegal immigrants into voters as expeditiously as possible, giving them a permanent national electoral majority based upon a beholden <em>Lumpenproletariat</em>.  If they succeed, our country will face mob rule.</p>
<p>No individual who broke the law to enter this country should ever be allowed to decide who becomes our president, governor, senator—or town council member.  If there is one message patriotic Americans must act upon during the remainder of Obama’s reign, it’s this: <em>No voting rights for illegals.</em></p>
<p>No other issue of our time matters remotely as much—not our lukewarm struggle with Islamist terror or even our metastasizing deficits.  This isn’t about tax increases or where to hold terror trials.  It’s about preserving our democratic institutions for law-abiding citizens.</p>
<p>Inevitably, objections to handing immigration criminals the vote will be denounced as racist, anti-immigrant, inhumane and so on.  Unable to argue on logical grounds, the left will resort to savage name-calling.  And, of course, illegal immigrants will be compared to the <em>legal </em>immigrants of yesteryear, as if our laws are just burdensome annoyances that insist on silly distinctions.</p>
<p>As for the left’s all-purpose charge of racism, <em>any </em>illegal immigrant—Irish, Guatemalan or Nigerian—must never be granted the right to vote in a US election.  “Illegal” means “not legal.”  It means “criminal.”  This is not a matter of nuance, and it isn’t color-coded.</p>
<p>(The single exception I would make would be to grant full citizenship to illegal immigrants who serve honorably in our military for a minimum of five years—but the left would hate that, too.)</p>
<p>As for being anti-immigrant, that’s nonsense, too.  <em>Legal</em> immigration remains a great strength of our country (I’ve argued for years for <em>more </em>visas and a path to citizenship for hi-tech wonks and other highly skilled workers).  Any immigrant who plays by the rules to enter this country, adjusts to our public values and obeys our laws should be allowed to earn the full rights of citizenship on schedule.  But no phony waiting periods, or token fines, or pay-your-back-taxes scams can be allowed to buy voting rights for those who broke our laws to steal into our homeland.</p>
<p>And the “inhumane” charge is sheer hypocrisy.  If the Democratic leadership and its organized protest mobs (such as the hate-group La Raza) genuinely cared about the plight of illegal immigrants, they’d argue only for a form of residency.  Illegals themselves aren’t the ones demanding the vote.  They’d be delighted just to be able to stay here.  It’s political activists who claim to speak for them who make voting rights “a test of our nation’s sense of justice.”  Playing the pity card, they pretend that legalization is all about keeping families together.  It’s not.  It’s about eleven million bought-and-paid-for votes.  Anyway, millions of illegal immigrants weren’t worried about the unity of their families when they abandoned their homes for the USA.</p>
<p>But reason won’t matter.  Anyone who challenges the free gift of voting rights to illegal immigrants is going to be charged as a bigot by the left.  It’s an accusation that those who love our country will just have to shrug off.</p>
<p>Conservatives and independents are going to have to decide with precision what they’re going to fight for in this struggle.  That means starting out by recognizing that we’re not going to line up eleven million illegals in a column of fours and march them back across the border.  They’re here.  Most are going to stay.</p>
<p>The crucial fight ahead is over those voting rights.  Every other question arising from this issue is trivial in comparison.  Those who love this country must focus on that single mantra, repeating it until the votes-for-illegals snake is dead:  <em>No voting rights for illegals, no voting rights for illegals, no voting rights for illegals.</em></p>
<p>The importance of this iron focus can’t be over-stressed, because left-wing activists in the administration and in Congress will try to lure our elected representatives into arguments over secondary issues, pretending to compromise on minor matters.  There’ll be discussions over the deportation of criminal aliens, back taxes, waiting periods, health-care liability, fines and fees, and any other distractions that can be tossed into the mix.  We must not let ourselves be drawn into debating such details as if the overall legalization process is a forgone conclusion.</p>
<p>What’s the right answer to the illegal-immigration crisis our government’s neglect has allowed to grow to such destructive proportions?  Congress needs to create a new class of US residency for those illegals with no further criminal records and who can document a  history of employment.  That residency would provide basic social and economic rights.  It would not give illegal immigrants the vote.</p>
<p>There is no reason, constitutional or moral, why Congress can’t do this.  There are already multiple classes of non-citizen residents, from temporary workers to refugees.  Of course, the Democratic leadership will howl and claim that anything short of full citizenship is an unacceptable injustice.  But what would be unjust about allowing eleven million criminals (and yes, they are criminals, every one, by virtue of breaking the law to enter our home) to remain on our soil, with all of the daily privileges and protections accorded full citizens&#8211;except the right to choose those who govern the rest of us?  Families (except of those who broke additional laws) would remain united.  Workers could work openly (and pay taxes honestly).  Children could go to school and apply for scholarships.  They just couldn’t force their political prejudices on us—although their American-born children would acquire full voting rights, when of age.</p>
<p>This is a practical, ethical, patriotic and sensible approach.  It will be attacked savagely by those who care more about blocks of votes than about the quality of human lives.</p>
<p>Born in 1952, I’ve lived through many national crises—more than a few of them exaggerated in their proclaimed importance at the time.  But I view the question of voting rights for illegal immigrants as the most critical issue of my lifetime, as regards the protection of our republic.  We had the American Revolution, not the French Revolution.  We never have been, and never should be, ruled by mobs.  But mob rule is the goal of today’s corrupt Democratic Party leadership.  They view power as an end in itself.  And they will do virtually anything to sustain, deepen and guarantee that power.</p>
<p>After a recent interview on security issues with talk-show host Laura Ingraham, we discussed this issue off-mike.  When I said, “No votes for illegal immigrants,” Laura gave me that piercing look of hers and completed the line for me: “No votes for illegal immigrants—ever.”</p>
<p>This is the crucial battle of the Obama era.  Independents, Republicans and Democrats of conscience must set aside all personal hobby horses and secondary issues, and avoid seductive compromises.  To preserve the United States we love and revere, we must concentrate ferociously on one clear goal as the left attempts to subvert our future elections through the gift of votes to eleven million illegal immigrants: No vote for illegals—ever!</p>
<p><strong>Ralph Peters is the author of the new book <em>Endless War: Middle-Eastern Islam vs. Western Civilization.</em></strong></p>
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