[Paul Ross]

More telling still is the issue of war and peace, the Democrats' long-standing bane. On August 5, 2001, the New York Times ran a story about Democratic unease over grandstanding by Hillary Clinton, Mario Cuomo, and other prominent liberals to stop Navy bombing exercises in Puerto Rico. "The liberals clearly did not expect that they would meet with such resistance, if not hostility. . . . Moderate and conservative Democrats nationwide are beginning to complain that the party, under pressure from its vocal liberal wing, has gone too far in trying to stop the training operations. Their biggest concern, they say, is that the party has left itself vulnerable to charges that it is antimilitary."

And so have the Republicans, with their astonishing political cowardice with the 'triangulating' cave-ins on our absolutely vital live-fire training base in Vieques, Puerto Rico. And the unilateral U.S. nuclear disarmament of the Moscow Treaty. Any real defense president would have started filling in the funding holes right away instead of caving to anti-defense Paul O'Neill. Or listening to the Clinton-holdover-guy in the DOD's strategic targetting section who spouts the line that we only need 400 nukes--when a real defense President should have had this malefactor put on military trial and shot forthwith...as the Wormetongue he is.

Any body with a brain could see the global storm coming...and the critical need to increase defense capablities, armaments, ammunitions, increasing force-levels, and training and re-equipping of forces, rather than waste time and money on 'transformation.' If it ain't broke don't fix it. We should not be emulating the Democrats to pander for votes.

With Europe and South American Marxists, combining with the Muslim World, and our own internal Marxists coalescing in a grand alliance against our national sovereignty and liberty...I am wondering if the Administration really understands that we are in quicksand, and that we really need to do more than juice up the economy and pretend everything is jolly well normal. Just like China and Russia are NOT our friends.

[William McKinley]

They may not be our friends, but they are available as strategic allies when the opportunity arises. As for the rising global storm, there has been trouble brewing since the days of cavemen, and there will always be trouble brewing. We always need to keep our eyes on the world, because the world is always eying us and what we have.