quarterly-report.com Political Commentary by James R. Audet

June 4, 1940
Excerpt from Prime Minister Winston Churchill's speech to the English House of Commons:

"...we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender..."

September 11, 2001

World Trade Center, The Pentagon, Somerset County, PA -- Many Deaths in Our Family

We have watched the collapse of the Towers of the World Trade Center from many angles at various speeds.  The images are burned into our subconscious.

We have known about the incompetence and misfeasance at the FAA, the INS, the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the State Department, the Energy Department, the National Defense Laboratories, et al.  ^1/

No words can comfort the dead.  A week's time is an inadequate period for contemplation.  What is the significance of the attack?

Instead of diplomacy, the United States must rely on guns for its national security.

 Photograph of stern flag aboard the battleship U.S.S. Alabama

While Clinton slept, he dumped the security of the United States into the hands of this generation of Americans.

  Photograph of Houston children at the controls of a 3-inch antiaircraft gun aboard the battleship, U.S.S. Texas

This is the legacy Bill Clinton leaves in his muddy wake: A man so self-absorbed in himself, that he laid bare America's flanks to a terrorist attack, unprecedented in world history.

Footnotes:

1/  The alphabet soup:

       FAA: Federal Aviation Administration.

       INS: Immigration and Naturalization Service.

       FBI:  Federal Bureau of Investigation.

       CIA: Central Intelligence Agency.

       NSA: National Security Agency.

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