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> Free Congress Foundation's
> Notable News Now
> August 12, 2002
>
> The Free Congress Commentary
> CEDAW: Now Is The Time To
>  Stand Up For American Sovereignty
> By Paul M. Weyrich
>
> The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted out the United Nations
> Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women,
> known as CEDAW. Every single Democrat and two Republicans voted in favor of
> this measure. The two Republicans supporting CEDAW were Sen. Lincoln Chaffee
> (R-RI), who is consistently at odds with his Republican colleagues, and
> Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR). Smith is in a tough re-election campaign and
> Oregon is a very liberal state.
>
> It is encouraging that two moderate Republicans, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN)
> and Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), voted against the treaty. That is probably
> because the treaty would require changes in American law respecting
> abortion. Several European nations that have abortion restrictions, Ireland,
> Belgium and Portugal, and Poland, which is seeking entrance to the European
> Union, have been told that because they ratified this treaty their abortion
> restrictions are null and void. This attack on their sovereignty is causing
> major political upheavals in these countries.
>
> President George W. Bush is a strong supporter of the Hyde Amendment, which
> forbids federal funding of abortion. That law would be struck down by CEDAW.
> Congress may at last pass a partial birth abortion bill and the president
> will sign it. But if this treaty is ratified, that law, along with those
> passed by state legislatures, would be declared null and void. The treaty
> has language that is interpreted to mean that abortion is a fundamental
> right for women. So the president's hope that abortion will be eliminated in
> years to come will not be a reality if this treaty is ratified.
>
> The president has no direct role in the ratification of this treaty. Only
> the Senate gets to act on the measure. It will take two thirds of those
> present and voting to ratify. But the president can speak his mind on the
> treaty. If he urges its defeat, the grass roots will be excited and will get
> out to vote in this election.
>
> With seven Republicans on the committee voting no, there is reason to hope
> that the treaty will not get the two-thirds needed for ratification.
> Democrats Ben Nelson of Nebraska and John Breaux of Louisiana usually vote
> pro life. They might well vote with the 41 Republicans who usually cast
> votes in support of the right to life. There are some other Democrats who
> sometimes vote pro life. It remains to be seen if they will oppose this
> treaty. But if the president were to come out swinging, asking the Senate to
> oppose ratification of the treaty, it would almost certainly mean that
> two-thirds of the Senate would not vote to approve it.
>
> Other measures may be affected by CEDAW. Years ago the states did not ratify
> the Equal Rights Amendment, despite the fact that Congress extended the
> ratification period by three years. Well, this treaty may well be the Equal
> Rights Amendment plus. What the states failed to ratify could be ratified by
> the U.S. Senate.  This is a question of sovereignty. Most treaties do
> impinge upon the sovereignty of the nation. But this treaty really overrides
> much of American sovereignty.
>
> The president has an excellent record on pro-life issues. If he speaks out
> on this issue, he will earn the plaudits of all those who value life.
>
> This is a Congress that can't get around to voting on critical measures,
> such as prohibiting cloning. But the leadership may find time to vote on
> CEDAW. Your Senators should know how you feel on this issue. Take no one for
> granted.  But also urge the president to get involved. He has nothing to
> lose and a lot to gain.
>
> Paul M. Weyrich is President of the Free Congress Foundation.
>
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> First Critique By The Conservative Movement of the War on Terrorism...
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> Free Congress Foundation's William S. Lind: Bush Administration's Strategies
> And Tactics In "War On Terrorism" Are Counterproductive
>
> Military theorist William S. Lind, Director of the Center for Cultural
> Conservatism at the Free Congress Foundation, challenges the effectiveness
> of the Bush administration's strategy and tactics in the so-called "War on
> Terrorism."
>
> In a newly published monograph, "George W. Bush's `War on Terrorism': Faulty
> Strategy and Bad Tactics?," Lind argues that America is fighting a conflict
> like no other that it has encountered in its 225 years of existence. In
> particular, Lind stresses the conventional wisdom that has dominated the
> United States' military and foreign policy during the last century is no
> longer effective.
>
> "If the ultimate goal of the strategy is to prevent or at least minimize
> attacks such as those of September 11th on America and Americans, going to
> war with virtually all non-state military entities in the world is the worst
> imaginable way to go about it," writes Lind.
>
> While American casualties have been "small" so far in Afghanistan, Lind
> notes there is a much wider and longer-term challenge posed by an extensive
> American presence in Afghanistan and other Middle Eastern states. Many
> Islamics are hostile to America and the West and our very presence in the
> region is likely to inflame their hostility and increase their numbers,
> particularly in nstable Middle Eastern countries.
>
> On the home front, the "War on Terrorism" is considered to be a good reason
> to increase the budgets of the bureaucracy rather than to take the needed
> steps to increase security that are likely to not be "Politically Correct,"
> including the use of religious and ethnic profiling.
>
> Lind explains that America is fighting its first real "Fourth Generation"
> conflict in which the enemy is not another nation-state, but a religion. He
> first discussed the changes underway in warfare that would take place in the
> post-Cold War era in two articles he co-authored for The Marine Corps
> Gazette in 1989 and 1994. The articles were cited for their prescience in
> the post-9/11 era in the Atlantic Monthly.
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