Bracing for the Apocolypse [Krauthammer]

TownHall ^ | February 13. 2003 | Charles Krauthammer

[Quilla]

The domestic terror alert jumps to 9/11 levels. Heathrow Airport is ringed by tanks. Duct tape and plastic sheeting disappear from Washington store shelves. Osama resurfaces. North Korea reopens its plutonium processing plant and threatens pre-emptive attack. The Second Gulf War is about to begin. This is not the Apocalypse. But it is excellent preparation for it.

You don't get to a place like this overnight. It takes at least, oh, a decade. We are now paying the wages of the 1990s, our holiday from history. During that decade, every major challenge to America was deferred. The chief aim of the Clinton administration was to make sure that nothing terrible happened on its watch. Accordingly, every can was kicked down the road:

[Quilla]

Copyrighted by the Washington Post, so I just posted an excerpt. Awesome read.

[borisbob69]

Ah yes...The Clinton Legacy! What a waste of 8 years that could have seen us (as the only Superpower) make the world a safer place to live. Now Dubya has the added weight of the obstructionist liberals thrown into the mix. Not the least of whom was (co-president) during those same 8 years of vacation!

[f.Christian]

"We are now paying the wages of the 1990s, our holiday from history" -- reality !

[Quilla]

I would love to be a fly on the wall when either Hillary or Bill read this. Finally, someone points out the true legacy of the Clinton Administration.

[NewYorker]

France and Germany are still living in the Clinton haze of the 1990s.

[Quilla]

I suspect that France and Germany are as complicit in Iraq's arms acquisitions as Clinton was with North Korea's. Sadly, Krauthammer doesn't mention the continued damage the democrats are doing to our country. They refuse to back President Bush in this war, they obstructed Homeland Security for a year, and now they cry that nothing has been done. All this in the name of back-stabbin', low down, dirty dealin' politics - sheesh!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

A very sobering article. Thanks for the post.

[Mr. Mojo]

Can--and will--the civilized part of humanity disarm the barbarians who would use the ultimate knowledge for the ultimate destruction?

Too late --- Pakistan already has nukes and missiles to deliver them. Allowing this state of affairs could very well turn out to be the bigget mistake we ever made.

[Mr. Mojo]

bttt

A very sobering article, indeed.

[Mr. Mojo]

I can't imagine Hillary ever reading Krauthammer.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Now we have this:

Hysteria runs riot; networks fuel the fear (Let us be more rational about our paranoia )

[Quilla]

Surely the most intelligent woman in the world keeps abreast of what is written about her previous co-administration. Or maybe all that intelligence stuff is a myth.

[Quilla]

Heard Rush for just a minute at the beginning of his show a few minutes ago. He started off with this article. I hope CK's content receives more press.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

FYI, Rush started his show by reading most of this article...

[KC_Conspirator]

"We are now paying the wages of the 1990s, our holiday from history"

The Klinton years were a total "Holiday from History". Needs to be repeated.

[Route66]

'I would love to be a fly on the wall when either Hillary or Bill read this. Finally, someone points out the true legacy of the Clinton Administration.'
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The other night on Fox, Dick Morris actually said that Bill and Hillary were ALWAYS so out of touch with the little people that they never listened to television or radio or even read the newspapers for that matter.

He said Bill actually wasn't even aware of Rush commenting on him every day until his mother-in-law heard Rush while driving to Washington one day and told him "You won't believe what this man is saying about you." Bill then called Dick and suddenly decided this talk radio thing was a problem and Dick said basically that Rush had been doing this a long time.

If this is true, no one ever went to Bill and Hillary with bad news or even news from the real world at all. At least in the early days of Clinton's presidency, they only concentrated on getting and keeping power. They lived in their own world where they were in charge and nothing else mattered.

Whether it's true or not, we are certainly suffering badly in the aftermath of the 8 year diversion into perversion that was the Clinton presidency.

[CCWoody]

Bracing for the Apocolypse ~ Title

The Title is amusing.


apocalypse

n 1: a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil

Personally, I'm rather looking forward to that Day.

Woody.

[LibWhacker]

Sobering indeed. Things are not looking up at the moment.

(And it's called the Drake Equation, after Frank Drake, who came up with it in 1961.)

[MassExodus]

This article was dead-nuts on.

We truly ARE in a race against time.

Thanks Clinton, you POS.