The Manchurian President Joseph Farah Friday, May 22, 1998I've got a simple question: Does Bill Clinton think he's president of the United States of America or the People's Republic of China?
If you examine his policies, vis a vis Beijing, it's difficult to tell. In fact, truth be told, he seems to have done much more to safeguard the security interests of China than of the United States. Let's look at the facts.
Clinton overruled his Pentagon, Justice Department and State Department to ensure the Chinese would have access to sensitive technology vital to improving missile guidance capability. The Chinese already have at least 13 nuclear warheads targeted at the U.S. West Coast. This deliberate technology transfer, personally approved by Clinton over the objections of his national security advisers, defense experts, diplomatic corps and Justice Department, represents a direct threat to the lives of millions of Americans.
Furthermore, this is just the latest shocking development along these lines. Despite the offensive military threat China represents to the future of the United States, Clinton has done everything in his power to coddle the repressive police state. Human rights abuses are overlooked. Religious persecution is winked at. Nuclear proliferation into terrorist states is casually dismissed. Threats to nuke Los Angeles are ignored. A massive military modernization program is deliberately disregarded. Clinton even personally intercedes to suggest that a subsidiary of the Red Chinese army get control of a strategic Naval facility in Long Beach, Calif. Clinton has also overlooked the fact that China now has control over both ends of the Panama Canal.
More recently, when China's peaceful neighbor India becomes alarmed by such developments and decides to test its own nuclear weapons, the U.S. quickly slaps it with sanctions. This despite the fact that India has no nuclear weapons targeted on the U.S. and no plans to do so. Its historical threat is from China, with which it has had numerous territorial disputes.
Clearly, China represents the gravest economic, political and military challenge to the United States for the foreseeable future. It is a totalitarian regime intent on expansion of its borders and influence.
Today, several investigations are under way trying to determine whether illegal campaign contributions from Chinese military intelligence and other massive political donations from U.S. corporations doing business with China's army had any influence on these critical national security decisions. But could greed and the desire for power alone explain such treasonous decisions? Or is there an ideological component involved in these shocking actions?
Some Clinton defenders say there is no way any American president would sell out his country for campaign contributions. Indeed, it's hard for anyone to imagine the possibility. Yet, those funds clearly indicate that China believed its best interests were served by the continuation of a Clinton presidency. The Chinese illegally funneled money into his campaign, and they got what they wanted.
Think about it.
Why would India face sanctions from the United States, while China receives the royal treatment of a most favored nation?
Why would the president sidestep the recommendations of his top national security, legal and diplomatic advisers to provide China with sophisticated high technology it could use to destroy our country?
Why would Bill Clinton put the lives of millions of Americans at risk to curry favor with the brutes in Beijing?
Years ago, Hollywood made a movie called "The Manchurian Candidate," in which the Communists infiltrate the American political system with a subversive, "sleeper" agent. Just the fact that recent developments remind Americans of such an unthinkable scenario should be cause for alarm. Whether Clinton's actions are the result of a calculated plan to destroy our nation's security, or the result of greed and lust for power, or the result of simple incompetence, two facts are undeniable: America's position in the world has been weakened; China has been strengthened.
Is it possible Bill Clinton has more loyalty to Beijing -- or other things -- than he does to the United States of America? I don't know the answer to that question. But, depending upon who writes the history books of the future, it is increasingly likely that he will one day be known as "the Manchurian President."
Joseph Farah is editor of the Internet newspaper WorldNetDaily.com and executive director of the Western Journalism Center, an independent group of investigative reporters.
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