9-17-94

Some thoughts prior to the Clinton Invasion of Haiti and in response to the ghoulish presence of "The Media" on the scene of the upcoming action.


Leadership

Alexander the Great was called Alexander the Great because he personally lead his troops while they killed more people, of more different types, and in more different regions of the world than anyone else had done up to that time...

Julius Caesar personally lead the Roman Legions in conquering Gaul...

In between, many other leaders personally lead their troops in killing and suppressing inhabitants of various geographic regions for numberless political and religious reasons...

George Washington personally lead his troops across the Delaware and into Trenton to rout the Hessians...

Napoleon even spent some of his time within range of unfriendly guns from time to time...

Although he was not the supreme commander at the time, Teddy Roosevelt personally lead his troops up San Juan Hill...

For some reason I cannot understand the reason why all of this personal leadership has stopped....Did some kind of politician-only insurance company insist on this fundamental change in leadership activity as one of the conditions for coverage?

There has been a definite hiatus in the application of personal leadership of a supreme commander of any country's military activities, anywhere, for a long time. Adolph Hitler, Joe Stalin, and Chairman Mao let their underlings do all the dirty work while they lounged around in their offices looking official. Are we , as concerned citizens, supposed to just sit back and let this continue, or are we going to begin insisting that our leaders put their own skins within harms way whenever they entertain these grand ideas of democratization of foreign realms?

I believe this is a perfect time for our current fearless leader to re-establish the highly significant and historically proper personal leadership of military formations while they attempt to accomplish the personal political and military goals of our current fearless leader and his international democratic party bosses. If CNN and the rest of the network media really want something captivating for the rest of us to watch, imagine how ratings would skyrocket when their pre-sited, pre-invasion TV cameras record the scene as our own Mr. Bill clambers over the Port-au-Prince sea wall with that American flag waving in his left hand and a .45 automatic in his right shouting:"Onward men! Lets go get those thugs and criminals and throw their heinies out of Haiti..."

9-19-94 After the failure of the Clinton Administration's invasion of Haiti.

And here I thought that the invasion of Haiti was going to be another example of a typical politically mismanaged military invasion with the additional normal screw-ups of an intense combat operation. I really thought that by this date, Mr. Bill would have a tiger by the tail in Haiti, mainly because some misguided and excessively enthusiastic military types happened to accidently over-waste a politically incorrect section of the Port-au-Prince slums. How wrong can I get? I must admit that I completely underestimated the ability of our fearless leader and his administration to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

9-21-94 The stage is set for Act 1, Scene 1 of Somalia II

Not only are those "thugs" and human rights violators not even seriously inconvenienced by the Carter agreement, these guys are now dictating their own terms for how the scene is going to be played out. Instead of being forcefully deposed as threatened, the troika is now negotiating their future plans with the people sent there to kick them out.

Former president Jimmy Carter, acting, perhaps, as an agent of Mr. Clinton, managed, in the space of just two days in Port-au-Prince, to completely alter the ultimate political and military stakes of what had previously been shaping up as Clinton's Haitian fiasco. Jimmy the peanut farmer, managed to turn the then threatened military invasion into another "peaceful occupation" of a yet another repressed population with complete and studied disregard for the critically obvious lessons that should have been learned less than a year ago in Somalia. Sure, I would be the first to admit that George Bush gave the orders that put the troops in Somalia on that great "humanitarian mission". However, it was the spineless political meddling and political ineptitude of the Clinton team that inherited the affair that turned that initially generous spirited venture into the horror that it finally became. The political ineptitude and lack of comprehension of basic military operations so ably demonstrated cost the lives of too many decent young Americans to permit these mental giants to go through the same process all over again without some serious recriminations. Someday, politicians that get their own people killed as a result of their bumblings must face punishments far greater than getting voted out of office. Philosphically speaking, do war criminals really only exist on the losing side?

Do you remember how our heavy tanks were taken out of Somalia through political meddling in the military operations just before the need for them became so bloodily apparent and we got to watch as those starving Somali's dragged the naked bodies through the dirt? Do you remember how democratic party hack and former Defense Secretary Aspin, ultimately got to take the responsibility for White House gutlessness, but, most interestingly of all, nevertheless got to retire with a huge taxpayer paid pension as his reward for exemplary service? The gentleman soldier whose dead son was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor as a result of that particularly malignant example of political malfeasance - yet refused to shake Mr. Clinton's hand at the award ceremony, should be honored as a true American Hero. Our fearless leader wasn't fit to even touch that decoration, let alone preside over a ceremony where it wasawarded. What written comment can better serve to demonstrate the utter contempt held for our current leader than that refused hand?

Well, now we have had a small taste of what the average Haitian thinks of the deal struck by Mr. Carter. They can't believe it! A few days before the unsigned treaty/capitulation/deal was struck, our fearless leader was calling General Cedras a "thug and criminal". Our fearless leader was making sounds that were generally interpreted as meaning that 1.) General Cedras and his crew's asses were grass; 2.) that when our boys in green got there, they would show that bastard how true Yankee retribution actually worked; and 3.) that his khaki covered butt would either be seriously looking for a new country to call home, or he would be pushing up palm trees in Haiti. How seriously General Cedras took Mr. Clinton was amply demonstrated the first time with the 1993 Governors Island agreement, and most recently demonstrated with his lack of a signature on the Carter agreement of 19 September, 1994.

9-22-94 Another reason why we need true government reform

On another front, I watched C-SPAN this morning when one our finest leftist liberal lawyers better known as the official "Council to the Exile Haitian Government", Ira Kurzban, threw out one of the best examples of the international democratic party line I have been privileged to hear. Ira said that our troops should confiscate all the guns of the Haitian army, police, paramilitary bozos, and local unaffiliated bozos, as a first step in preparing the rest of the locals for the return of his client, the exiled El Supremo. Sounded more like wishfull thinking about a test run for the disarmament of the citizens of the good old U. S. of A. the way it came out.

What amazed me the most during this program was Ira's lamentations about his financial remunerations in these Haitian matters. Not only does he unabashedly represent foreign quasi-enemy interests just like most other lobbyists, but his (get this) discounted fees come out of our pockets, not Haitian pockets! Just think about this a minute. Someone in the Clinton administration has evidently set up a mechanism whereby this radical liberal attorney, plus all the others busily involved in this obviously lucrative deal, really gets paid by the taxpaying citizens of this country through some furtive official money laundering policy that ends up magically making Ira's fees appear to come from the Exiled Haitian Account at the Federal Reserve. Why some underworked Haitian attorney currently sweltering in some Miami area luxury apartment can't function as the Council to the Exiled Haitian Government is a dilemma. That would be too simple, wouldn't it? This way, the attorneys on our end of the foreign aid circuit are guaranteed some of the taxpayer's proceeds. Operation Uphold Democracy indeed! What was it they said in Hamlet?

Dr. Bob Brossman

Wheeling, WV