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14 October 2002
Federalist No. 02-42
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CONTENTS:
The Foundation
Insight
ICTUS Imprimis
Family
Culture
Liberty
The Gipper
Opinion in Brief
Featured Site
Editorial Exegesis
Government
Re: The Left
Political Futures
For the Record
Reader Comments
The Last Word
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THE FOUNDATION
"Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his
constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass
of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate
in their burdens." --George Mason
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INSIGHT
"They [the Bill of Rights] are as clear as the Ten
Commandments.... Herein are the sentinels which guard the doors
of every home from invasion of coercion, intimidation and fear.
Herein is the expression of the spirit of men who would forever
be free." --Herbert Hoover
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ICTUS IMPRIMIS
"In much of Western life religion has descended into simply making
people feel good. At its best, however, religion teaches what
is ultimately important and what isn't. Neither a good nor a
happy life is possible without knowing that." --Dennis Prager
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FAMILY
"What comes out of a microphone, television, film or video depends
on what's put into it. What emerges from a child depends on what
goes in. We can drum in virtue, wisdom, love and attention and
expect the same in return, or we can expect violence, despair,
suicide and alienation when we abandon, ignore and corrupt our
youth." --Cal Thomas
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CULTURE
"If I were Hispanic, I would be ashamed that so many American
institutions take it for granted that people like me can't
understand English. I would notice that there were never any
telephone prompts or hyperlinks for Italian or Hindi or Japanese.
I would realize that no one assumes that German-, Arab-,
or Vietnamese-Americans are unable to communicate in English.
I don't know which would depress me more: the knowledge that my
fellow citizens feel obliged to condescend to Hispanics or my
sense that so many Hispanics prefer it that way.... I am the son
of a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia who immigrated to America
in 1948. ... My father was forced to learn English; it was the
prerequisite to American life.... Not learning English was not
an option. My father had to acquire the common American tongue.
His life has been better for it." --Jeff Jacoby
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LIBERTY
"When I first came to Washington I met what I took for a hopelessly
cynical man who asked me to define a secret. I stumbled, and
he said that a secret was when you called a press conference
and nobody reported what you said. Apparently the media of the
entire Western world have applied this standard to the dramatic
events in Iran.... So we have a new historical phenomenon: an
invisible, unknown, and therefore secret revolution is under way
in Iran. ...It rather reminds one of the days of the Cultural
Revolution in China, or the immediate postwar period in Cambodia,
when millions of people were killed and the West ignored the
story. It was not that there were no journalists or others who
knew what was going on; they simply refused to tell the story,
for a variety of reasons. ...Iran is the mother of all terrorism,
and the fall of the mullahs would be a major turning point in the
modern history of the Middle East. If the details of the regime's
desperate and savage struggle for survival were reported accurately
and quickly, the West might yet rediscover its conscience and
join with President Bush in declaring the regime an international
pariah, thereby accelerating its demise." --Michael Ledeen
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THE GIPPER
"All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
So tomorrow night in the kitchen I hope the talking begins.
And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what
it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it.
That would be a very American thing to do." --Ronald Reagan
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OPINION IN BRIEF
"Mr. [George] Tenet presides over the Central Intelligence Agency,
the most prominent of the bureaucratic screw-up agencies that
failed, and failed utterly, to give any warning that Islamist
terrorists were on their way to September 11. Having slept through
all that, the CIA now wants everyone to believe that it finally has
the right stuff on Saddam Hussein. ... Mr. Tenet wrote a letter
to Congress, undercutting George W.'s fervent arguments that Saddam
Hussein is a mortal threat to the United States, that is a classic
piece of shoulda, woulda, coulda. Well, yes, Saddam is a menace,
and his efforts to obtain nuclear weapons to go along with his
biological and chemical weapons should be a matter of 'concern,'
maybe even 'serious concern,' but we can all go back to sleep.
As long as the United States doesn't do anything to upset Saddam,
he will have 'little reason' to do anything bad. George W. should
just make sure he makes nice. ...[But the] argument over whether
to do anything about Saddam is over, and the timid, the fearful
and the frightened lost. The protestations of the timid, the
fearful and the frightened are weaker with each new round of
protest. ...[O]nly last week two of our most distinguished pundits,
reeking of sociological insights, military lore and political
acumen, argued that the cause of regime change is tainted with
racism. ...Courage comes in all colors, shapes and sizes, and such
comparisons are odious. But the dissenters, including reluctant
spooks, are desperate for arguments." --Wesley Pruden
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EDITORIAL EXEGESIS
"Let there be no doubt that, if President Bush's proposal
to create a new Department of Homeland Security goes down to
defeat in the coming days, responsibility will lie with Senate
Democrats led by Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Sen. Joseph
Lieberman. ... Mr. Daschle's Democrats and their allies in
organized labor want to strip Mr. Bush of authority, held by
every president since Jimmy Carter, to exempt employees in the
new department from union control if the president concludes
that such control would interfere with their 'primary function
of intelligence, counterintelligence or national security
work.' ... They would, in effect, make slow-moving, bureaucratic
labor boards like the Federal Labor Relations Authority, instead
of the president of the United States, the final decision-makers
when it comes to staffing and employment-related decisions. ... In
short, Mr. Daschle and his minions have cynically decided to put
partisan political advantage for the Democratic Party and federal
employee unions ahead of what should be one of their top national
security priorities: sending the president a reasonable homeland
security bill he can sign." --Washington Times
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GOVERNMENT
"Congress is in the midst of an unprecedented spending binge.
Since 1998, federal discretionary spending has increased on
average by nearly 7 percent every year, growth unseen since
the late 1960s. Excluding the emergency spending as a result
of September 11, federal spending is increasing almost 4 times
as fast as inflation, and 50 percent faster than median family
income." --Sen. Phil Gramm
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RE: THE LEFT
"Make me a sandwich, Madeleine Albright. Because the woman belongs
behind a deli counter. Not speaking before the Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations and accusing the Bush administration of an
'irrational exuberance' for the conflict with Iraq.... Lest
anyone think the sandwich request be hyperbolic, let's recall
that the Albanian delegation to 1999's Kosovo peace talks thought
she was the cleaning lady. Where military force makes sense,
she is against it; where it will cause a quagmire, she is for it.
When the enemy is scary, she advocates passivity; when the enemy is
not the enemy, she calls for attack.... Indeed, the woman gives a
whole new meaning to the term counter-intelligence." --Julia Gorin
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POLITICAL FUTURES
"There is a whiff of schizophrenia about the Democrat party.
When it comes to going to war with a dangerous man possessed
of weaponry more lethal than anything the late Adolf Hitler
ever had, the Democrats betray an irenic streak: all patience,
conciliation and wimpery. But when it comes to going to war with
fellow Americans it is war: show no quarter, no holds barred,
take no prisoners. If the Democrats were as bellicose toward
Saddam Hussein as they are toward the Republicans, Iraq would be
a smoking crater." --R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
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FOR THE RECORD
"What Saddam Hussein is doing is nothing new. Hitler played all
these kinds of games during the 1930s, while he was building up
his military forces until he reached the point when he was ready
to strike. He understood that he needed to buy time above all and
that, when he became powerful enough, many would see the futility
of resistance. The same kinds of people in the West who refused
to see the crucial importance of time in the 1930s are today
saying that we should 'wait until' this or that happens before
we take military action 'as a last resort.' ...Maybe it would
be useful to see how this game was played by Hitler, in order
to understand why time is crucial. Germany's ability to attack
other nations in Europe was stifled by a treaty which required
them to station no troops in their own industrial center in the
Rhineland. This meant that, if Germany attacked any other country,
French troops could easily seize German industry and paralyze
its economy. ...After Hitler took the desperate gamble in 1936 of
sending troops into the Rhineland, in violation of this treaty,
...[t]hose who deal with the gritty life and death choices of
the real world as if they were discussing abstract questions
around a seminar table said that Hitler had 'just gone into his
own backyard.' Other nations station their troops anywhere they
want, inside their own borders, why not Germany? By the time
they realized why not, Hitler had devastated half the continent
and had come within a hair of destroying Britain. ...Caution is
sometimes the most dangerous policy. And this looks like one of
those times today." --Thomas Sowell
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SELECT READER COMMENTS
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"Federalist No. 02-42 quotes President Bush: 'We refuse to live in
fear.' In the Insight Section you quote Dr. Johnson: 'The future
is purchased by the present.' I would add Colonel Pinckney's
200-year-old admonishment: 'Millions for defense, but not one cent
for tribute.' If we don't act now, there won't be any future to
purchase, because we will be under nuclear blackmail to Saddam
and the terrorist ilk, ironically those same middle-Easterners
Pinckney, Preble and Decatur had to face down so long ago. Let's
get it on George and put an end to this 200-year war."
"Arafat, Anan, now Carter. Is this the same Geemuh Cottah that
gave away the Panama Canal, forced Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza
to leave Nicaragua, gave us 21% interest rates, forced Shah
Reza-Pahlavi out of Iran and then fumbled the ball when trying
to free U.S. Embassy personnel in Tehran (who were release just
before Ronald Reagan took office because there captors knew they
could not treat President Reagan the way they did Mr. Carter).
If this is the same guy, the Nobel Committee has now established
itself as irrelevant to reality as the UN."
"How do you do it? Writing The Federalist without cursing and
banging on table tops, and pulling out more than a few hairs. I
must admit, some of the stuff you report causes me to react that
way! Thank God The Federalist is available with your concise,
intelligent analysis of national and world events threatening
our freedoms."
Editor's Reply: Obviously this reader has not been a ''fly
on the wall'' when we page through the morning Leftmedia news
(analysis)!
"I am not alone among your readers who object to our pending
action against Iraq. You need to put your ear to the ground and
see what your supporters think."
Editor's Reply: The Federalist Editorial Board does not do
"focus groups" to determine the outcome of our consideration
and analysis of an issue. (That was the Clinton administration's
policy directive!) We consult many well-informed multidisciplinary
resources prior to taking an editorial position on an issue. That
is not to say we have not been wrong or that we have never changed
our position. It is to say that we are providing our readers with
the best threat analysis anyone in America can get this side of
highly classified briefings.
"Would that the doves had their way, this greatest-ever nation
would be just a smoking crater. We have never gone to war with
another democracy, and I want my soon-to-be-born child to live
free from fear."
"You mentioned Hanoi Jane as a comparison to these two jokers. I
think that comparison is inapt since she was a private citizen
(although a very loud in public one) while McDermott and Bonior
are elected representatives. Their appearance as apologists for
Saddam Hussein was worse than treason. Of course, they are among
the protected class of federal politicos, so prosecution will
not even enter the debate about their actions."
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THE LAST WORD
(Content warning from The Federalist Editor for Standards and
Practices -- parental preview suggested.) "You are going to think
I made this ... up. Even I sometimes wonder if I made it up,
although I know for a fact that I did not, because I am looking
at a story about it from The London Telegraph. Here is the key
sentence: 'The Tate Gallery has paid 22,300 pounds of public
money for a work that is, quite literally, a load of excrement.'
Yes. The Tate Gallery, which is a prestigious British art museum,
spent 22,300 pounds -- or roughly $35,000 -- of British taxpayers'
money to purchase a can containing approximately one ounce of
an artist's very own personal.... OK, let's call it his artistic
vision. The artist is an Italian named Piero Manzoni, who died in
1963, but not before filling 90 cans with his vision. According
to the Telegraph, 'The cans were sealed according to industrial
standards and then circulated to museums around the world.'
Now if somebody were to send YOU a can of vision, even sealed
according to industrial standards, your response would be to
report that person to the police. This is why you are a normal
human, as opposed to an art professional. The art museums BOUGHT
it. The Telegraph states that, in addition to the Tate, both the
Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Pompidou Museum in Paris
have paid actual money for cans of Mr. Manzoni's vision. (Notice
that I am tastefully refraining from making a joke involving
'Pompidou.')" --Dave Barry
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