The Farrakhans In Government

LOOK, it’s one thing to have Louis Farrakhan make speeches about being beamed up by space aliens and make crazy comment about numerology.

An excerpt from Farrakhan’s “million Man March” speech 10 years ago.: “In the background is the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorial, each one of these monuments is 19 feet high. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president. Thomas Jefferson, the third president, and 16 and three make 19 again. What is so deep about this number 19? … When you have a nine, you have a womb that is pregnant. And you have a one standing by the nine. It means there’s something secret that has to be unfolded."

I’m willing to understand that a generation of black men that have been taught by black racists and white Liberal racists to hate whitey will respond to a combination of self-help and hatred that is the stock-in-trade of this tribe.

But when someone who sat at the right hand of Colin Powell gives a speech that is even more troubling than the stupidity uttered by Farrakhan, there is every reason to begin wondering what kind of people are a little too close to the levers of power in Washington.

Case in point is Lawrence Wilkerson; until recently chief of staff of former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

He made a remarkable speech to the New America Foundation, a Washington think-tank. What was remarkable about the speech is that it articulated the attitude and belief system of the Washington establishment which consists of the bureaucracy, the press, the lobbyists and the denizens of the think-tanks.

In his own personal Farrakhan moment he said that the government of the United States was hijacked by the inhabitants of the “Oval Office.”

Think about that for a moment.

What would your reaction be if the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs complained that the civilian leadership was hijacking the military’s decision making power to wage war. If he said that he would, and should, be immediately dismissed. Then an investigation begun to determine if there are a bunch of Colonels planning a military coup.

But here we have a member of the permanent bureaucracy criticizing the top elected civilian leadership of the country of actually plotting to implement their ideas for the direction of government policy.

Here is his complaint: What I saw was a cabal between the Vice President of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the Secretary of Defense ... on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made.

So you’ve got this collegiality there between the Secretary of Defense and the Vice President. And then you’ve got a President who is not versed in international relations. And not too much interested in them either.

And so it’s not too difficult to make decisions in this, what I call Oval Office cabal...

There is a President Bush that Mr. Wilkerson admires: … watching probably one of the finest Presidents we’ve ever had, that’s how I feel about George H. W. Bush, exercise one of the greatest adeptnesses at foreign policy I’ve ever seen.
So many things happened in George H. W. Bush’s 4 years that I think when historians write about it with dispassion 25, 30 years from now, they’re going to give that man enormous credit for knowing how to make the process work…

George H.W. Bush:the man who made “the process work.”

There are probably not many things that history will say about Bush 41, the one-term Bush. I doubt that it will place tremendous emphasis on his foreign policy in view of the mess he left in the Middle East; a mess that we are now fighting a costly war to repair.

Am I being unduly harsh on this Wonder Bread member of the foreign policy establishment? You have a chance to read his speech and decide for yourself. I doubt if it will major play in the MSM because it lays bare so many of the pathologies of the Washington establishment.

But since it appears to represent high level bureaucratic beliefs, it does explain to some extent the reasons why George Bush finds himself embattled. He now has a war not just with Islamofascists, but with the permanent establishment who see an opportunity, like jackals circling a wounded lion, to take a nip.

I don’t know who will win this fight, but I am firmly on Bush’s side. I want to be able to vote for my leaders. I will not be ruled by the people who believe they are superior to our elected officials. Those people are not amusing; they are a danger to a free people.