Phil Brennan
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 20o01

We're barely a month into the war in a small part of Chaostan and some idiots are already running around wringing their hands and screeching that we're "bogged down in a quagmire."

If we are, that's the fastest bogging down in the history of war, one of which lasted so long historians call it the "Hundred Years War." Now that's a quagmire. That's really being bogged down. And relax, we've got another 99 years left to get to that point.

What the hell's the matter with these people? Can't their tiny warped intellects grasp the meaning of President Bush's warning that this struggle could last a lifetime?

Did they expect that the military was going to drop a few smart bombs and then go waltzing into Kabul with Mr. bin Laden's head in hand?

The media's military experts such as the combat-wise Mr. Bill Kristol, who fought his wars in Harvard Square, are outraged that we haven't swept the Taliban into history's trash can while at the same time wiping Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya and only God knows what other nation that offends their tender sensibilities off the face of the map.

None of these exquisites has bothered to consider the difficulties Mr. Bush faces in prosecuting this struggle against a few hundred million folks who are just as anxious as they are to prevail in this global conflict.

Take central Asia, for example. It should be called Chaostan – all of it. It is filled with one of the world's largest conglomerations of murderous thugs, many of whom are available for rent to the highest bidders.

The Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, for example, are now being sanctified by the clueless media as "freedom fighters" instead of being accurately portrayed as the mass rapists and killers they are. They are really terrible people, not the kind you'd want as next-door neighbors, or even living in your state, for that matter.

It is patently obvious that the U.S., thanks to our environmentalist saboteurs and the craven politicians who heed their demands, is now utterly dependent upon foreign oil, much of it imported from the region, and needs to have a stable government in Kabul.

And the administration is fully aware that having the likes of the Northern Alliance running things there would be something like putting the Mafia in charge – with Jeffery Dahmer as boss of bosses and controlling the flow of Caspian Sea oil.

As a result, the U.S. and Britain have simply slowed things down in the Northern Alliance sector in the hope of putting together a coalition of reasonably sane Afghans, if they can find any, and installing them in Kabul before the Northern Alliance can take the city, or what's left of it, and go about the business of raping and looting at which they are so expert and practiced.

One of those difficulties is of the president's own making. In his desire to erase the history of the last eight years and get on with the business of governing the United States, Mr. Bush, by his silence, has in effect saddled himself with the onus that should be borne solely by the man who put America in such jeopardy that ordinary citizens are afraid to open their mail: the despicable William Jefferson Clinton.

You want to talk about the problems the military has encountered over the last few weeks, with some smart bombs proving to be quite stupid, with inexcusable intelligence failures here at home and abroad putting Americans in harm's way, with mass confusion in the executive branch? With a decimated military barely able to fight a one-front war, much less two? Then talk about Bill Clinton.

To begin with, over the past eight years Mr. Clinton simply gutted the armed services, reducing what had been the finest and most powerful military establishment in the world into a threadbare organization that was swapping tires from one vehicle to permit another to move, and cannibalizing aircraft parts from several planes to allow another to fly.

Morale was in the pits, thanks to the Clintons' sociological experimentation with unisex armed forces ordered to tolerate sexual deviants in their ranks and submit to the latest politically correct dogma emanating from Mrs. Clinton and the feminazi cohorts with whom she had infested her husband's administration.

Do all of those who criticize the alleged slow pace of the struggle in Chaostan appreciate the problems left on the presidential desk by the previous occupant of the Oval Office?

And do they not realize that Mr. Bush inherited an Augean stable of an executive branch that will take more than the scant eight months he's been in office to sweep out?

Unfortunately, the executive branch still harbors a whole slew of Clinton appointees, the majority of whom remain committed to the corrupt, socialist and weirdo leftist policies so typified by Hillary Clinton and her merry band of socialist infiltrators.

If President Bush ever expects to have an efficient executive branch conscientiously doing his bidding, he's going to have to reach down beneath the upper levels of the administration, grab this army of Clintonites by their scrubby necks, and throw them as far as he can.

Mr. Bush needs to set off an administration-wide hunt to locate these Clinton moles. If he fails to do it now, he's going to find his orders and policies regularly sabotaged by this Clintonite scum burrowed within the bureaucracy.

The very security of the American people depends upon fast action in this regard. Failure to root them out will inevitably drag Mr. Bush and the nation down.

The other day, for example, NewsMax.com reported that James Rubin, the former State Department public affairs propagandist and husband of CNN's war slut Christiane Amanpour, is still being welcomed around State's Foggy Bottom digs with open arms, where he should be forever persona non grata.

Just who is in charge around there? It's a small thing, but exactly who has the welcome mat out for this smarmy Clintonite?

Mr. Bush also needs to undo the damage done to armed forces morale by all that insane and destructive sociological experimentation. Let the armed forces be the armed forces and not a laboratory for political correctness.

Start by getting women out of combat, for example, and let the feminazis howl, and dump incompetent officers promoted solely because they snapped to and clicked their heels to curry favor with the Clintons and their minions.

Go after the idiots who persecuted and prosecuted the brave men who were castigated for having merely been present at the infamous Tailhook affair, for example.

Restore morale, treat our warriors with respect, and cashier those officers who collaborated with the Clintons' efforts to ruin the military they loathe.

Tell John Ashcroft to get rid of the Clintonites in his department, people who aided and abetted Clinton criminality by covering it up and thwarted investigations of Clintonite wrongdoing.

And by all means, get rid of those FBI officials who helped politicize the bureau and are even now pushing the Clinton line by whispering to their socialist friends in the media that the source of the anthrax attack may well be ... guess what ... that vast right-wing conspiracy that kept poor Hillary awake at nights.

We need a witch hunt to clean out the executive branch before these people do any more damage. And we need it now.

Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska.

He can be reached at pvb@pvbr.com.