More CIA Revelations – Political Correctness Kills
Do you believe our enemies have been encouraged or discouraged that the government, the media and the victimized airline stewardesses don't want to arm pilots even after living through Sept. 11?
If you dig a bit deeper, you will realize how P.C. thinking and its commissars got us into the mess of Sept. 11 and what troubles lie ahead.
America must break its P.C. chains soon to ensure that the barbarians don't destroy us.
When former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
called the infamy of Sept. 11 a "wake-up call from hell,"
he meant just that. His characterization demands
repeating again – and again – because worse than Sept.
11 will happen unless we heed the call.
I am not so sure the commissars of political correctness,
which so dominates our media, our government
bureaucracies and other institutions, are willing to
unshackle the will of the American people and allow us
to destroy the terrorists and the nations that back them.
President Bush has done a remarkable job – especially in
light of the hand he inherited from the previous
administration. It is also important to remember that a
hidden problem for the Bush administration is that the
U.S. government, including our Pentagon, CIA and
other agencies, is still largely run by appointees of
Clinton-Gore or the career military and bureaucrats
Clinton-Gore promoted through the ranks.
The same people who left us vulnerable to the acts of
Sept. 11 are now claiming they will solve our future
problems.
I believe long-term good will come out of this
catastrophe only if we learn from the events of Sept. 11,
hold accountable the people in our government who
failed us, and make necessary reforms.
If we do not do this, it is doubtful we will exist as a great
nation 10 years hence.
We should also heed the Roman statesman Cicero, who
remarked that great nations are destroyed not from the
barbarians outside but from the civilized people within.
The logic of this is simple: There will always be
barbarians outside the gates. It is up to us to have the
character and strength and will to defend against them.
Before Sept. 11, P.C. thinking taught us that nothing we
do matters; character didn't count. It was the Age of
Clinton. After Sept. 11, the overriding lesson is that
everything we do counts; character does matter.
Even the liberal Boston Globe recognized this. Breaking
from the P.C. crowd, it reported that Clinton's
sexcapades and scandals detracted from his ability to
focus on hunting down Osama bin Laden. That story
got almost zero national press coverage.
And the Globe and many media still haven't talked much
about what happened at the CIA.
Political Correctness Ruined the CIA
Our loyal readers will remember that NewsMax broke
the story, within hours of the attacks, about how P.C.
thinking by Clinton and Sen. Torricelli had prevented
the CIA and its many patriotic members from doing their
jobs. (See CIA Officials Reveal What Went Wrong –
Clinton to Blame and Sen. Torricelli Played Key Role in
Closing Down CIA Ops.)
The CIA was effectively banned from recruiting
unsavory characters to penetrate terrorist cells.
But that was just a small part of how P.C. thinking has
undermined America and the CIA.
During the past decade, the CIA has been twisted from
an intelligence-gathering organization with a mission to
protect America and her citizens – and turned into a
model of political correctness.
Under Clinton, the CIA was told to stop focusing on
spying and start focusing on P.C. agenda items like
global warming.
Worse, the CIA staff was to become a model of P.C.
ideology.
One analyst retired in disgust after the agency had
appointed a person to become a lead analyst for a
particular country.
This person was qualified because she was black, a
female, and had graduated from an Ivy League college
with a high GPA. The CIA was not concerned that the
young woman did not speak the language of the
country she was to analyze, nor had she ever visited the
country.
She did prove, however, that the CIA was diverse.
Diversity Defined the CIA
As anyone who worked at the CIA can tell you,
"diversity" was the buzzword that animated the agency
during the Clinton years. Diversity was the mission and
the goal.
A CIA operative close to the Middle East told me that
the agency was even placing women in countries like
Islamic ones, where the culture does not view women
progressively.
While this policy demonstrated the agency’s
commitment to diversity, it effectively cut its female
operative out of any serious interaction with the host
country's political and military establishment.
P.C. thinking dominated all the activities of the agency.
CIA employees were regularly hit with a barrage of
Orwellian P.C. workshops and literature explaining how
they needed to be ... well, sensitive and open to
diversity.
One analyst, still a CIA employee, told me about one
CIA sensitivity training seminar he had to sit through.
The presenter, an expert in diversity, gave a Powerpoint
presentation on the benefits of diversity.
One slide showed an American Indian sitting on the
ground working with beads. The presenter explained:
"American Indians have a long tradition working with
beads. They are good with beads, and they have, in
modern times, become good working with wires."
Another slide showed an African-American professional
sitting at an office cubicle on the phone. The presenter
explained: "African-Americans are particularly sensitive
to being interrupted while on the phone. You should
avoid doing this."
As the analyst explained, "They were creating new
stereotypes as they were complaining about old ones."
The CIA had become the Central Intelligence Agency
for Diversity.
How sad. How dangerous.
No wonder that, with an annual budget of $60 billion,
the CIA had no warning, no informant in the Sept. 11
network that several experts say must have numbered
300 people working in several countries.
Commissars Won't Heed Wake-up Call
I could swallow the government's failures of Sept. 11 if
we heeded the wake-up call, exposed the problems of
P.C. thinking at the CIA and elsewhere, and made
reforms.
But the commissars of political correctness that control
the major media will have none of it. Consider how there
has been practically no criticism by the major networks
of President Clinton's stewardship of our national
security agencies.
The same commissars who were, in the middle of this
horrific crisis, attacking President Bush will not utter any
criticism of Bill Clinton.
In fact, Clinton was actually being praised! NBC’s
Andrea Mitchell, Alan Greenspan's wife, was on-air
spewing her venom for Bush, complaining that he was
not, like Bill Clinton, a "Comforter in Chief." You see,
according to P.C. thinking, Bush's desire to stay up in
Air Force One to ensure the continuity of government
was less important than going to New York to cry, hold
hands and show how we "feel."
Criticism of Clinton is taboo precisely because the major
media know that criticism of him is criticism of them.
They supported him and the bizarre P.C. thinking that
has possessed them and brought us to the point of
Sept. 11.
So, instead of heeding the "wake-up call," the P.C.
commissars in the media are continuing to play old
tricks.
Within hours of the attacks, I heard P.C. anchors and
commentators spinning that these events proved
America does not need missile defense. Don't they care
that the very same countries behind the terrorists are
feverishly building and developing long-range missiles
capable of hitting many American cities at once?
No, the commissars never lose an opportunity to spin.
The 'Evils' of Profiling, Arming Pilots
Consider, since the attacks of Sept. 11, how many
stories you've seen about the horrors of profiling – and
how evil it is for authorities to be checking
Arab-Americans more carefully at airports.
Forgive me, but doesn't common sense dictate that
when 19 Arab men, all in a certain age bracket, just
hijacked four jet planes and just killed around 7,000
people, that it would be reasonable to check people
who fit that profile a bit more carefully? Wouldn't
patriotic Arab-Americans be glad for such a policy
because it assures their safety as well? If I was an Arab,
I would be happy I was being checked.
Perhaps the most egregious evidence of P.C. thinking
that has invaded our government was the U.S.
government's failure after Sept. 11 to either a)
immediately arm pilots in the cockpits or b) call out the
National Guard to fly armed on all flights until a sky
marshal program could be implemented.
Instead we dithered. The country's economy has been
allowed to fall off a cliff. And the FAA says airlines are
safe at the very same time Reagan National remains
closed and we read reports on the military's plans to
shoot down hijacked civilian jets.
But we can't arm the pilots – God forbid!
Even when the head of the pilots association goes
before Congress to say that planes are not safe, that the
pilots need guns, the media play the story as an extreme
measure.
The media commissars would have none of it, even if
arming pilots was an appropriate measure that would
have immediately instilled confidence in the public to fly.
Instead, the media gave a lot of air time to Patricia
Friend, president of the Association of Flight
Attendants. She told Congress she opposed arming
pilots.
Hearing her, I was left wondering if she was awake on
Sept. 11. Did she also think the planes were a place for
box cutters of the type used to slit the throats of her
members?
Then I realized that Patricia Friend was a P.C. robot.
Since her first anti-gun comments, Friend has modified
her position, probably after her shaken membership sent
her a wake-up call of their own.
By week's end, Friend was saying that pilots shouldn't
be allowed to carry guns, that instead flight attendants
should be armed with "stun guns," which she called "the
weapon of choice."
Friend must have thought it outrageous and in
contravention to all P.C. theology that the pilots (mostly
males) would be armed but the attendants (mostly
female) would not be.
Of course, any sane person realizes that giving flight
attendants any sort of gun would be like giving it
directly to potential hijackers. Would you want to fly on
an airline that armed the stewardesses with stun guns?
In the wake of Sept. 11, can’t we see the danger of
political correctness and how it has crippled this great
nation?
Aren't our potential enemies, bigger than Osama and
with weapons capable of destroying every major city in
America, watching carefully our response to Sept. 11?
Do you believe our enemies have been encouraged or
discouraged that the government, the media and the
victimized airline stewardesses don't want to arm pilots
even after living through Sept. 11?
If you dig a bit deeper, you will realize how P.C. thinking
and its commissars got us into the mess of Sept. 11 and
what troubles lie ahead.
America must break its P.C. chains soon to ensure that
the barbarians don't destroy us.
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