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Victor Davis Hanson writes about The Global Shift of power from Europe to China. His view is that once China becomes a superpower, and people notice how brutal and repressive it is:
...the old maligned United States will begin to look pretty good again. More important, America will not be the world’s easily caricatured sole power, but more likely the sole democratic superpower that factors in morality in addition to national interest in its treatment of others.
...Most critics will find such sentiments laughable or naïve; but just watch China in the years to come. Those who now malign the imperfections of the United States may well in shock whimper back, asking for our friendship. Then the boutique practice of anti-Americanism among the global elite will come to an end.
As I’ve noted previously, the world needs another superpower to keep it in order. Even a brutal, repressive China, will show people how lucky they are to have the U.S. around.
FrontPage hosts a panel discussion on this important subject.
This is an example of a Liberal group literally making common cause with an enemy of this country and achieving a goal that is counter to the safety of Americans.
Saddam Hussein, “the only Mideast leader to publicly praise the 9/11 attacks,” wanted to see Ahmed Hikmat Shakir released by Jordanian security forces, who were holding him due to his involvement with the 9/11 attacks.
Amnesty International decided that it too wanted Ahmed Hikmat Shakir released. They issued an “URGENT ACTION” report demanding the release of Shakir, saying he was “at risk of torture.”
“Pressure from Amnesty and Saddam Hussein worked,” the Journal said. “Mr. Shakir was released and hasn’t been seen since.”
Shakir was present at a January 2000 al-Qaida summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where the 9/11 plot was reviewed. Two of the actual 9/11 hijackers were also at the same meeting.
...But for the intervention of Amnesty International, Shakir might be in Guantanamo today – undergoing grilling by U.S. interrogators about al-Qaida’s plans for the next 9/11.
Seeing that the “risk of torture” argument got one terrorist, Shakir, released, Amnesty International is now seeking to use it to get all the terrorists at Gitmo released.
Forget shutting down Gitmo. Shut down Amnesty International.
...Faris received attack instructions from top terror leader Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, authorities said, for what they suggested might have been a second wave of terrorism to follow the Sept. 11 attacks.
...”The case against him was so strong that Faris chose to cooperate,” Bush said. “Today instead of planning terrorist attacks against the American people, Iyman Faris is sitting in an American prison.”
Everyone expected just such a wave of terrorist attacks after 911. Everyone asks how it can be that such a wave of attacks has not yet taken place. Examples such as this appear to indicate that our law enforcement and intelligence agencies have been extremely successful in preventing them.
The Left has tried to claim that the absence of such attacks meant there is no terrorist threat. Examples such as this appear to indicate the reverse.
He said the Patriot Act has been used to bring charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half have been convicted. He also said it has been used to break up terrorist cells in New York, Oregon, Virginia and Florida.
In opposing the Patriot Act, the Left was opposing the very thing that is contributing so much to keeping us safe.
I was surprised earlier this week to see that an expansion of the Patriot Act was passed by the Senate Intelligence Committee. It appears likely the Committee had heard all these details, and possibly a lot more.
DID ANYONE ELSE THINK THE LAST FEW EPISODES OF THE SIMPSONS seemed to have a different sensibility than the rest of the season? Maybe all the usual writers were off working on the Simpsons movie.
In the wake of Apple’s move to Intel processors, I’ve just seen two striking endorsements of Apple. On the last page of the latest issue of Fortune, Stanley Bing describes how a Dell computer with a vast amount of important data was taken over by viruses until it was essentially destroyed and the data was lost. The last sentence:
I’m getting a Mac.
Unexpected!
And yesterday ABC News posted commentary on Mac’s move to Intel, from Michael S. Malone (a noted Apple booster), that includes this opinion:
The Apple II, after all, was the best computer of its era, a title usurped only by the Macintosh and its descendants. Apple also has always had the best Operating System software — a fact proven by Microsoft’s endless, and usually inferior, efforts to copy it.
It’s like, all of a sudden, it’s just common knowledge that Apple was always the greatly superior computer.
Maybe this move to Intel will work.
P.S. Robert X. Cringely thinks Intel’s going to buy Apple and take over the computer world.
