Saddam Hussein: World's Biggest Jerk
Ok, so the U.N. has brokered a deal whereby Satan… um, Saddam… gets his toes out of the fire and the inspections can continue. Great. What a big waste of time that was, right?
Wrong.
If you think for two seconds that Saddam's weapons manufacturing machine wasn't operating full tilt while no one was looking, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you.
Ok, so now Saddam is feeling pretty good about what he accomplished through this standoff. And the U.S. is expending millions of dollars keeping a military presence in the Gulf. Russia has shown that the most they will do to support a moron like Saddam is shake their fist a little (kudos to them for knowing where to draw the line) and France has shown itself to be filled with complete head-in-the-sand, pacifistic, wimps.
Now what?
Well, it's my opinion -- and that is what these pages are all about, my opinion -- that the U.S. should not be the police for the world unless we are specifically invited to participate by the U.N. counsel and are reimbursed for some of the cost by the U.N. Who exactly foots the bill could be decided by the U.N., like possibly the nation causing the trouble. If this were already in effect, Saddam would have been busy paying off the bill for having the world's "peace" forces come in to shut him down. But otherwise, we end up making enemies every time we overstep the our bounds to push someone around, even if it's to force them to comply with the U.N.'s mandates.
We should stop being policemen and start being one of the U.N.'s hired guns. That's right, we can still be the muscle, but it's time the muscle started listening to the brain. We should keep out of all affairs international unless the brain, the political entity designed to govern international interests, sends the muscle the signal to act.
Look, we damage the U.N.'s credibility every time we ignore them to take action on our own. Other nations might look at the U.N. as a real force in the world if we allowed it to function properly. Right now it's a laughing stock.
But regardless of whether or not the U.N. takes it place as the definitive voice on all matters international, the U.S. should stay the heck out of foreign affairs. We should announce formally that we're stepping out of the spotlight, that the nations of the world are just going to have to grow up and be a bit more independent. We should ignore international disputes and stick to our own shores. Let things stew. Let the Saddam's of the world take over a few nations, bomb a few nations, release biological and chemical agents to wipe out a few million people. Then the Frances and Chinas and Russias of the world will come crawling to us, begging us to do something.
And then we can come out swinging…
ForniGate
Who cares?
Ok, let's assume Clinton did it, figuratively speaking. And let's picture him for just a moment being asked the question by that icon of American patriotism, Kenneth Starr, if he had an affair. And whatever answer he gives will get back to his wife.
What would
YOU say?OF COURSE HE DENIED IT!!
So would anyone else!! I'd be worried about his sanity and intelligence if he didn't. What do you expect him to say? "Um, well, yeah, I did this one intern in the oval office. And there was the lady Secret Service agent that I had in Limo #1. And then there was me, Madeline Albright, and Janet Reno in a heart-shaped hot tub in Vegas. And…"This is so stupid, primarily because Clinton's sexual habits are NOBODY'S BUSINESS!! It has nothing to do with how he does his job.
Should the leader of our country be held to a higher moral standard. Yes, absolutely, no doubt in my mind. Does the public have a right to pry into his private affairs? No, of course not, no way.
And while other far more important things are going on, our press corps is busy embarrassing the U.S. in front of the whole world by questioning Clinton on this case right in front of foreign dignitaries. How mortifying for the U.S.! I am ashamed of what the U.S. press is doing to the U.S. people. We are being ridiculed from within.
If I was in charge of Clinton's P.R., I'd instruct every journalist that, if they brought up ForniGate, I'd have them discharged from the press conference and they would not be invited back. And if the news agency they represented kept sending bulls into the china shop, that news agency would be banned from press conferences indefinitely.
Call it censorship if you like. I prefer to call it preserving what tatters of this nation's dignity still remain.
Hillary Clinton
And if he did do it, Hillary should divorce his sorry butt and run for President in 2000. Heck, I'd vote for her just on principle.