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In September 1929, \"the Roaring Twenties,\" \"the Era of Wonderful
Nonsense,\" of sex, booze and jazz, ended with the stock market crash that
began the Great Depression. There followed the \"low dishonest
decade\" of poet W. H. Auden\'s depiction, as Western statesmen sought to
appease their way to security and peace.
On Sept. 11, 2001, as the 767s smashed into the twin towers of the World Trade
Center and Pentagon, killing 5,000 Americans, another unserious era of sex
scandals and stock market silliness came to an end.
Recall, if you will, the summer of 2001. The story that had CNN, MSNBC and FOX
News transfixed was the saga of Gary Condit. Nightly, talk-show hosts demanded
answers to the great questions: Why did Gary throw away the watch box? Where
did stewardess Anne Marie Smith spend her D.C. nights? By Sept. 11, the story
seemed about to end in a great courtroom drama, with Anne Marie charging Gary
with libel – for denying she committed adultery.
What will the decade be remembered for? The Trial of O. J.? Who killed
Jon-Benet Ramsey? The Oval Office trysts of Bill and Monica? Condit summer?
Meanwhile, not to worry about the world. For America is \"the last
superpower,\" the \"indispensable nation.\" The New Economy will
take us to \"Dow 36,000!\" \"Pax Americana\" and
\"Global Democracy\" are our destiny.
On Sept. 11, the frivolous era came to an end. Suddenly, for the first time
since Gen. Jackson drove the British army out of Louisiana, the enemy was
inside the gates, slaughtering thousands.
Why? Because we adopted an open-borders policy that left tens of millions of
illegal aliens wandering about America, few of whom had any loyalty to us, some
of whom were willing to murder us on the orders of their foreign masters. To
keep the cost of labor down, we let millions of strangers, and not a few enemies,
into our home. Never before has America been so vulnerable, and corporate greed
and craven politics did it to us.
Tuesday, the U.S. reported that industrial production fell for the 12th
straight month. Bethlehem Steel became the latest U.S. company to go Chapter
11. U.S. factories now produce at 75 percent of capacity. Last year, the U.S.
trade deficit in manufactureds hit $324 billion and the merchandise trade
deficit $450 billion. The de-industrialization of America is well advanced.
In a triumph of the globalists, America has become again what she has not been
in generations: a dependent nation. For the loss of our economic independence,
we may thank the free-trade-uber-alles crowd. They tell us their high
principles prevent them from saving the U.S. industries their policies are
designed to kill. But, routinely, they loot our tax dollars to bail out their
banker friends and foreign collaborators from Indonesia to Russia to Argentina.
With the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the U.S. had a chance to dissolve old
Cold War alliances and adopt an America First policy of non-intervention in
wars that were none of our business. Instead, we launched the Gulf War,
expanded NATO to Russia\'s border, went nation-building in Somalia, invaded
Haiti, plunged into the Balkans, smashed Serbia and imposed sanctions that may
have killed half a million Iraqis. Today, U.S. war commitments in Eastern
Europe, the Balkans, the Gulf, Central Asia and the Taiwan Strait exceed those
of Ronald Reagan. Yet, Mr. Bush has only half the Army, Navy and Air Force Mr.
Reagan had. Never has America been so over-extended.
How has the American Empire profited the American people? Only the Brits are
with us in Afghanistan, and they will take a pass on the next war planned by
our war hawks: The invasion of Iraq. Meanwhile, once-friendly regimes from
Jordan to Malaysia squirm to distance themselves from \"the indispensable
nation.\"
With the FBI warning of a 100 percent chance of terrorist attacks, with anthrax
scares shutting down Congress, with daily calls to curtail civil liberties,
questions arise: Are we more or less free and secure than when we began to
build this \"New World Order\"? Are we better off now than we were
before we ignored our founding fathers and decided to go abroad \"in
search of monsters to destroy\"?
The president has moved with great prudence in the Afghan war. Let us go in,
get them, get out and go home – and let the Arab and Islamic world work out its
own destiny. But of this we may be sure: History will hold the globalists and
latter-day imperialists of left and right accountable. Their epitaph is already
written: \"On the altar of global empire, they sacrificed their
country.\"