9/11 Footnotes: Paranoiacs Have Enemies Too!

Lest anyone be misled by my previous column on 9/11, let’s be clear about the threats and dangers faced by the United States today: The perpetrators of the attacks on September 11th, 2001, the Islamic crazies, are only the most obvious of our enemies.

We have a slew of others.

Always reliable entrants on our enemies list is the former U.S.S.R. under the semi-detached leadership of Vlad Putin, former head of the KGB. Still chafing after the dissolution of its empire–thanks to Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II–and infused with oil revenues, Russia is doing its damnedest to regain a semblance of international power.

Its latest gambits include a secret meeting with Israel’s PM Netanyahu, http://bit.ly/xLR0f. Israel knows it no longer has a friend in the White House. What transpired at that meeting or meetings is unknown but we can be certain the subject was not America’s national security.

Practicing Bill Clinton’s triangulating, Putin also held a kissy-fest with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, http://bit.ly/WFWCz, and Russia announced it wants to make nicer to a potentially-nuclear Iran: http://bit.ly/NadTC.

Then there’s the inscrutable Chinese. With our nation in hock to China up to and beyond our elbows, Washington knows China is in the catbird seat and is just waiting to pounce. It won’t necessarily pounce literally. China need only bide its time, wait for our economy to collapse under our debt burden, and call in its chits.

Meanwhile, China agitates “for the creation of a new currency to eventually replace the dollar as the world’s standard, proposing a sweeping overhaul of global finance that reflects developing nations’ growing unhappiness with the U.S. role in the world economy:” http://bit.ly/6dNmB.

Put more simply, China wants to bail on the dying corpse that is the U.S. dollar.

Out on the periphery of America’s enemies are Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela, all of whom would salivate at the thought of the end of the United States as a world power, an end achieved via violence or national or economic implosion.

Whatever works.

Further out on the periphery are too many nations and semi-nations to count, . . .
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