"WHEN" AMERICA IS BROUGHT DOWN LOW

Looks like our Presidential mistake is dreaming out loud.

The U.S. should be strengthening the UN and other "mechanisms of cooperation," Clinton said. "We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block."

Thanks to people like him who are constantly pushing for "that glorious day" to come, we should take his statement as a threat. But what is he talking about, anyway? The entire focus of our collective national interest is currently geared toward making the world a decent place for all mankind to live and prosper, in freedom without fear. Those values make the U.S. the only saving grace of the UN. We don't seek to take over the world, or even impose our will after we're forced into a war. After war, we generally give defeated nations a big kiss of cash, the gift of democracy, extend our hand in friendship and ask them to forgive us for liberating them from their death cult leader. Now we just want to defend the world from another aggressive genocidal murderer and his terrorist proxies, and we even (mistakenly) offered the U.N. a starring role in the process so it can restore it's image. They turned it down. Think Rwanda, Mr Clinton.

This inane Clinton guy was our President,and still doesn't know the American we all know? As with Jimmy Carter, it seems that Constitutional principles have failed to penetrate his ideological shell even after being President. You'd think the gravitas of the the job would change a person who lacked respect for this nation. Perversely, he instead sees our post-Clinton sobriety as a threat to his vision for America. It's the one he implemented during his presidency, where potential threats to our supremacy are ignored -- or even given a leg up with the crown jewels of our military technology. This, while slashing our own military and refusing to develop a missile defense. Sounds like a man attempting to hand over the reins to a new superpower, or at the very least trying to make the world a "superpower-free zone." So now President Bush, after righting the ship, and trying in vain to give the UN an Iraqi disarmament victory they've been "fighting for" for 12 years, is supposed to cooperate by bowing down to Iraq's stubborn allies? Folks, that's not a world anyone wants to live in.

UPDATE: A Clinton military aide wrote in the new book Dereliction of Duty that, among many other outrageous things, a major attack on Iraq was scrubbed because Clinton refused to stop watching golf.

"Sir, he is watching the golf tournament with several friends. I've approached him twice with your request. I've communicated your concerns about the window of opportunity and about the pilots being prepared and ready to go.

"I'm an Air Force pilot myself, sir." Patterson told Berger. "I understand the ramifications. I'll try again."

For the third time in an hour, the military aide desperately tried to get Clinton to focus on the mission - hoping he would appreciate that further delay could jeopardize the lives of U.S. pilots now waiting for his order.

But Clinton remained oblivious. "Tell Berger that I'll give him a call on my way back to the White House," he said

I think we can safely assume he was busy hitting on the girlfriends and wives of the golfers.