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ENEMY BEHIND OUR ENEMY On Saturday I received a phone call from a Czech immigrant (now a naturalized American citizen). He was gloomy in his assessment of the world situation. “The communists are still in control in the Czech Republic,” he explained. “They are helping the terrorists.” Because he attempted to bring publicity to this issue he has received threatening phone calls. “Get your shovel ready,” one anonymous caller stated. Another friend, a citizen of the Czech Republic, upset by the prevailing power of secret communist structures in the “former” east bloc countries, wondered why the United States did nothing. There is evidence on all sides, she explained, yet “the U.S. still keeps a blind eye towards Russia. Why?” The answer is chilling to hear, but nonetheless true. Governments are made up of men, and men are often deceived by appearances: by friendly smiles and solemn promises. But most of all, they are deceived by their own hopes for the future. “I was thinking about this Iraq mess,” she wrote. “There is one big question I would like to find the answer for. Why the U.S. didn’t attack the former USSR and its satellites when it was well-known that Russians was, and is, building a nuclear arsenal, when their nuclear warheads were stored all over our country, when Czechs trained terrorists, produced plastic explosives and supplied arms to Muslim and terrorist countries, and still do so today. Why was nothing done when human rights were abused here, and many people were tortured and killed, when terrible gulags were everywhere?” People in Eastern and Central Europe were suffering. They were being tortured and oppressed. But America, the world’s most powerful country, did very little to help those caught behind the Iron Curtain. Now the United States is going to liberate Iraq. But why should the U.S. be so selective in which dictatorship it topples? Why doesn’t the United States confront Russia with its clandestine support for Iraq, or its treaty-breaking and its proliferation of deadly technology? “I just don’t understand,” she wrote. An unclassified report from the CIA to Congress now warns that Russia is spreading dangerous nuclear and missiles secrets to other countries. China is also doing this. If the so-called “axis of evil” possesses weapons of mass destruction we have Moscow and Beijing to thank. And we also need to ask a very simple though terrifying question. Is this proliferation a deliberate policy adopted with the idea of hurting the United States and its allies? (1) America’s leaders hesitated to attack the Soviet Union when the U.S. had a monopoly of nuclear weapons. Because of the terrible price we would have paid, we hesitated to save those who were caught in the totalitarian web. The question of World War III was studied after North Korea attacked South Korea in 1950. Military experts concluded that most if not all our allies would abandon us at the outset of a world war against communism (if America struck first). It was estimated, in the early 1950s, that such a war would cost 10 American million lives and last 10 years. The military experts believed victory was possible, but the cost was too high. American leaders preferred to wait and see if communism would gradually die out. Their wishful thought, as well, was that Russia and China would turn against each other. President Eisenhower told Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that our policy was to hold firm until changes occurred within the Sino-Soviet bloc. “He felt these changes were inevitable,” wrote Dulles. Appearing before Congress in early 1959 Dulles hopefully stated: “you could very well have a struggle between … Mao Tse-tung and Khrushchev as to who would be the ideological leader of International Communism.” In addition, President Eisenhower believed that communism itself would change and that waiting for this change was better than accepting the inevitability of nuclear world war. And who would want to argue otherwise? (2) The leaders of the Soviet Union heard about the statements of President Eisenhower. They knew what John Foster Dulles said to Congress. They knew all about America’s long-range strategy against communism. They knew that America was waiting for them to split apart and change from within. How, then, would Moscow use this knowledge? Nixon’s outreach to China was a continuation of Eisenhower’s “divide and conquer” idea. His détente policy looked forward to internal changes within the communist regimes. Now it appears that Eisenhower’s strategy and Nixon’s policy, followed by all subsequent presidents, was unsatisfactory. Because of this plan China has been strengthened and Moscow has renewed its old alliance with Beijing. Washington is assured that this alliance is not aimed at America, but such assurances are fairy tales for adult children. Russia is supplying China with advanced weapons, and together they have built up a bloc of terrorist states in Asia, Africa and Latin America. It is now clear from the statements of Fidel Castro, and from the actions of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, that this bloc of countries intends to bring the United States to its knees by means of economic warfare and terrorism. Third World states and small terrorist groups will be used as proxies to directly attack the United States and its allies, to disrupt their economies, to terrorize their leaders, and to cripple their defenses. The danger to the United States and to Western Civilization is very real. According to Insight magazine, elite U.S. counter-terrorism units are on alert. Citing intelligence and military sources, Insight has stated there “is a growing body of evidence that terrorists associated with and/or sympathetic to Osama bin Laden are planning a significant attack on U.S. soil.” Insight also stated that “Senior U.S. intelligence analysts … say they fear such an attack would involve a nuclear device.” America’s Nuclear Emergency Search Team (NEST) has been activated. Some experts suspect that a nuclear bomb plot against America was thwarted shortly after 9/11 when the U.S. rounded up a large number of terror suspects. It is now believed that al Qaeda has recovered from these initial losses. According to Insight magazine sources, “fresh intelligence collected on al-Qaida's nuclear ambitions strongly indicates that a new scheme to attack the United States with some sort of nuclear device has been resurrected with the re-emergence of bin Laden and the reconstitution of unidentified al-Qaida cells in the United States.” (3) Last week this column discussed the connection between Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and al Qaeda. There is also a connection between al Qaeda and communist China. Yossef Bodansky, director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, says there is a strong connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. When all the connections are drawn, the spider at the center of the web comes into focus. Perhaps the most fascinating detail offered by Insight magazine involves a former Soviet official. In its attempt to thwart the next “spectacular” terrorist attack, U.S. authorities were led to “a former KGB officer working at the United Nations.” This man was allegedly involved in “brokering deals for nuclear-weapons materials overseas.” One of the lessons we learn from reading Yevgenia Albats’s book on the KGB, The State Within a State, is that KGB officers do not leave the KGB upon retirement. They enter the KGB reserves and are given light duty, even in retirement. As Albats shows, this practice continued after the fall of the Soviet Union. We must therefore be skeptical of the word “former” when used in front of words like “KGB” and “Soviet.” This also goes for the leadership of the supposedly “independent” republics that broke from Moscow over a decade ago. Many of these countries are still led by their “former” Communist Party chiefs – like Eduard Shevardnadze, formerly the head of the Communist Party of Georgeia; or “former” KGB Gen. Gaidar Aliyev in Azerbaijan. As it happens, the former Soviet republics in Central Asia are still ruled by the communists. Their transformation into democrats is nothing short of miraculous. In Eastern Europe these men would never have remained in place, but Central Asia is a long way from Paris and London. What is not before our eyes is not present in our thoughts. And besides, who in the West really knows anything about Kazakhstan’s Nursultan Nazerbayev (a Politburo member under Gorbachev)? My Czech friends are depressed for good reason. They see America struggling in the war against terror. They fear that the center of the terrorist web is not some cave in Afghanistan, but an office in the Kremlin. Looking at the fraudulent democracies of Eastern Europe, seeing the same old communist faces on all sides, they wonder at the credulity of U.S. leaders. Does President Bush really think he is fighting a small group of Muslim extremists with communist North Korea tacked on as an afterthought? Or does he recognize the larger enemy behind the Islamic front? Is President Bush falling into a trap as he moves against Iraq, or is he aware that something larger and more dangerous is behind it all? I cannot answer these questions. Ever since the Cold War began we have been living in a “wilderness of mirrors.” Deception has been the name of the game, especially as the Russians play it. I suspect, however, that deception should not be countered with deception. In that event the better deceivers will win. Deception should be fought with truth. Our enemies should be named and the evidence against them should be compiled and published. Many of us here in America, worried about rising immorality and growing corruption, wonder if a collapse has not occurred within our own country. Perhaps there has been a certain hollowing out, economically and morally. Time will tell, of course. And wars have a way of shaking things loose. Notes:
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