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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (16445)	6/23/1998 6:02:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

BEIJING PAID THE BILL AND HE'S PLAYING THEIR TUNE By ANDREA PEYSER YOU want strong and consistent leadership? You might consider moving to Communist China. At least the leaders there don't pretend to be keepers of the moral flame while tossing their friends, their principles - and the very security of their country - into the fire for want of a buck. Don't listen to me. Listen to our commander-in-chief. Master of the political flip-flop. China's best toady. "There is no more striking example of President Bush's indifference to democracy than his policy toward China. Instead of allying himself with the democratic movement in China, George Bush sent secret emissaries to raise a toast with those who crushed it... "I believe our nation has a higher purpose than to coddle dictators and stand aside from the global movement toward democracy." - Presidential candidate Bill Clinton in the Washington Post, Oct. 2, 1992. "There are some people who criticize everything I do. If I walked out of the White House and I spread my arms and I proved I could fly, some people would claim that I had done something wrong." - President Clinton, complaining to Chinese reporters about criticism over his planned visit to China's Tiananmen Square, and his snub of pro-democracy dissidents, June 21, 1998. By now, the nation has grown immune to the man's blatant hypocrisy, bald-faced opportunism and outright lies. He's Bill Clinton, and you get what you pay for. But what strikes one as most galling here is the flat-out shamelessness of tone. The absolute righteousness in his voice as Clinton deflects reasonable criticism about his incredibly selfish, and potentially dangerous, coddling of China. It is standard Clinton: He blames unnamed enemies for his foolhardiness. Does the tone sound familiar? It should. It doesn't always take Clinton five years to perform a naked about-face. It can take as little as three weeks. Consider: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky," - President Clinton, Jan. 26, 1998. "Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already." - Presidential spokesman Mike McCurry, discussing the nature of Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky, Feb. 17, 1998. By comparison, the Monica mess, while revealing of Clinton's character, seems almost trivial. There, the president is only accused of taking sexual advantage of a star-struck intern. Now, he seems dead-set to screw the entire free world. Let's review: President Clinton, after so angrily denouncing George Bush for his friendly relations with Chinese butchers, today stands accused of approving the sale of American nuclear technology to China. Stuff so powerful, it is not unreasonable to imagine a day in which 250 million Americans, from Portland to Park Slope, will find themselves speaking Cantonese. Why? It's Clinton's thank-you gift for all that campaign cash the Chinese stuffed into his greedy little pockets. The Pentagon, to say the least, is in an uproar. And in Washington, using the word treason, for the first time in ages, doesn't put the speaker in fear of being committed. "Bill Clinton is a living example of Lenin's dictum that capitalists will sell you the ropes to hang you with," says conservative commentator Lisa Schiffren. Michael Ledeen, who served as a special adviser to the secretary of state under President Reagan, tells me, "I was already hollering at Bush, ^National Security Adviser Brent_ Scowcroft and ^Secretary of State Howard_ Baker as they started to arm China. But in their wildest dreams they never imagined this. "We have sold China the crucial technologies for a modern army. We have given them things capable of disrupting ours... "We have sold them more supercomputers than we have in the whole ^American_ military establishment. We've sold them so many, we don't even know how many we've sold them." For what? "At the end of the Cold War, we were in a position to advance our interests and ideals all over the world," Ledeen says. "We could reward democracy, challenge tyranny. Instead, we armed the one country in the world that could seriously challenge us and threaten our very existence." This legacy of Bill Clinton is today being written. He will be the man who stood on the ground stained with the blood of the brave men and women who fell in Tiananmen Square. And held out his hat. nypost.com