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Democrats Plunge Us Into the Dark Ages Lowell Ponte In January, after he withdrew from 2008 presidential consideration, Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts was in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual private World Economic Forum of those who think they rule the world. The United States has become a "pariah" in the world, proclaimed the failed 2004 Democratic presidential nominee. Thus, intoxicated by a whine of sour grapes, Sen. Kerry rejected the nation whose voters rejected him. But why did Mr. Kerry ever think himself fit to be America's President? Culturally speaking, he is not an American. His formative years were spent in Switzerland, speaking French in an elitist boarding school. When alone with his African-born billionairess wife, Kerry reportedly converses with her in French, not English. Davos was for Kerry a homecoming, a return to the America-disdaining, Euro-socialist culture he deems superior to ours. Has it ever dawned on him that the ancestors of most of us chose to flee from Europe? Has Mr. Kerry ever noticed that the socialism he and his fellow liberal Democrats adore is nothing more than repackaged, warmed-over European feudalism in which we must all bow as peasants before the paternalistic state? All must bow in his Kerryan dystopia; that is, except the ruling elitists who gather at Davos. But Davos was different this year, writes Fareed Zakaria in his Feb. 5 Newsweek article "Preview of a Post-U.S. World." Except for Mr. Kerry's petulant backstab, this annual gathering that used to attract anti-globalization protestors and 43 flavors of other America haters, was in 2007 nearly devoid of its customary America bashing. Story Continues Below
The reason, surmised Zakaria, is that the Davos participants — gathered to discuss its 2007 theme "Shaping the Global Agenda: The Shifting Power Equation" — were "moving beyond George W. Bush." The American president, speculated Zakaria, is now so lame a duck, and his international influence so diminished, that Bush's weakened America is scarcely worth attacking. And President Bush, for his part, sent no prestigious spokespeople nor cabinet members to Davos as he had done in previous years. Unlike his father, George W. Bush seems to have moved beyond caring what the world's movers and shakers think. The man whose money purchased the Democratic Party and paid for its 2006 re-conquest of Congress — global financier and Hungary-born billionaire George Soros — should be delighted by President Bush's decline. The greatest danger on earth, Soros has written, is that the United States is "too powerful." His aim in putting tens of millions behind Democratic candidates has been a calculated investment in making the United States weaker in the world. Sadly, Soros' assessment is accurate. Recent Democratic rule has been disastrous for the United States. Democratic President Jimmy Carter's hyperinflation stole half the life savings (in purchasing power) from every American family, and Carter's withdrawal of support from the Shah of Iran produced a terrorism-supporting Islamist takeover that led to 9/11 and destabilized the entire world. Co-presidents Bill and Hillary Clinton gutted America's national defense and intelligence budgets, laying us open to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and their weakness in places such as Somalia persuaded Osama bin Laden and other Islamists to view the U.S. as a paper tiger that would retreat if attacked. The current Soros-bought Democratic Congress is now rushing to stage precisely such a retreat, which will foster untold future terrorism. For Mr. Soros, who made his billions largely through financial manipulations that crippled the Bank of England and the Russian ruble, a world where the U.S. becomes too weak to lead and maintain order will provide easy pickings for his machinations and megalomania. What concerns Zakaria is that if the United States abdicates as world leader, nobody else can or will fill the resulting global power vacuum. Communist China refuses to lead. Europe is too militarily weak and politically fragile to take up the mantle it wore during its imperialistic era more than 100 years ago. The United Nations and its bickering members are incapable of exercising world leadership. Zakaria references an essay by British historian Niall Ferguson, "A World Without Power," that appeared in the July/August 2004 issue of the journal Foreign Policy. If American global hegemony ends, warned Ferguson, the result might not be the New World Order of an orderly multipolar system of cooperating nations and blocs. What might emerge instead could be "Apolarity," an "anarchic new Dark Age: an era of waning empires and religious fanaticism; of endemic plunder and pillage in the world's forgotten regions; of economic stagnation and civilization's retreat into a few fortified enclaves." And this would happen, of course, in a world with no policeman to prevent the proliferation of nuclear and other megaweapons, weapons that could give a handful of apocalyptic terrorists the killing power once possessed only by a few superpower nations. Only the United States and Israel today might have the will and ability to prevent the Ayatollahs of theocratic, medieval, terrorist-arming Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. At the top of Iran's target list for such weapons will be Tel Aviv and liberal Democratic New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. But Soros' liberal Democrats are frantically trying to tie President Bush's hands so that the U.S. can never pre-emptively smash Iran's nuclear serpent's eggs before they hatch. These liberal utopians live in a fantasy amusement park — call it DavosWorld. In this Democratic Disneyland the 3,000 American deaths of 9/11 are dismissed as not all that bad, as one liberal academic opined days ago in the Los Angeles Times. Three thousand American soldier deaths in Iraq during almost four years of fighting, however, require immediate U.S. withdrawal. While Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was waging World War II, American soldiers were being killed at an average rate of about 255 deaths per day. The body count for all of Bush's Iraq and Afghanistan years of fighting is equivalent to average U.S. soldier deaths during only 12 days (of the nearly 1,400 days) of American involvement in World War II. If you want a new, bloodier Dark Ages, vote Democratic.
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