Phyllis Schlafly is a leading conservative who is not incapable of criticizing Republicans. In the end, however, I suspect she is like most conservatives: unable to imagine any line which, once crossed, would force her to stop supporting the Republican Party.
I recently ran across an article she wrote for her Phyllis Schlafly Report back before 1997, entitled, "What Does New World Order Mean?" In it she criticizes Bill Clinton's pursuit of G.H.W.Bush's "New World Order." Considering that she called for the impeachment of Clinton for his intervention in Bosnia, how can she not call for the impeachment of George Dubya Bush for his slavish promotion of the New World Order in the Middle East? What Clinton did in Bosnia, Bush is doing in spades in Iraq.
Here is a reprint of Schlafly's critique of Clinton. I have added links to hint at the parallels between Clinton and Dubya.
George Bush started our country on the risky road to what he called (but did not define) the "New World Order." Bill Clinton is only too happy to define it for us.
New World Order under Bill Clinton means using American troops like a mercenary Foreign Legion, to be sent into all sorts of foreign fights even though no U.S. national security interest is at stake. No U.S. national interest was threatened in Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, or Haiti.
New World Order under Bill Clinton means risking American troops on such vague and undefined missions as
- "peacekeeping" (in places where there is no peace to keep, such as Somalia, where American soldiers were dragged through the streets in humiliation during our "peacekeeping" efforts),
- "restoring democracy" (to countries that never had democracy, such as Haiti, and putting in power a Marxist dictator [Aristide] who has publicly approved of the hideous practice of "necklacing"),
- and "nation-building" (using our combat troops to build a government, a police force, and infrastructure in foreign countries).
New World Order under Bill Clinton means asking the overpaid bureaucrats in the United Nations for the go-ahead to assign our troops wherever he thinks American media attention should be diverted. Clinton sought the approval of the United Nations to invade Haiti, but did not seek the approval of Congress, which the U.S. Constitution requires.
New World Order under Bill Clinton means assigning U.S. servicemen and women to serve under foreign commanders. He signed Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) 25, which specifically asserts his authority "to place U.S. forces under the operational control of a foreign commander."
New World Order under Bill Clinton means flagrantly violating two sections of the U.S. Constitution: Article I, Section 8 gives Congress (not the UN) the power "to declare war," Article II, Section 2 limits the President's treaty-making power by this clause: "provided two thirds of the Senators present concur." Clinton asked the UN, not Congress, for permission to invade Haiti, and he intends to consider the GATT/WTO treaty passed if it gets a simple majority (not two-thirds) to the Senate.
New World Order under Bill Clinton means joining the World Trade Organization, which would put American jobs, trade and economy under the control of a foreign legislature (where we would have only one vote out of 123), a foreign unelected bureaucracy in Geneva, and a foreign trade tribunal empowered to decide disputes in secret.
New World Order under Bill Clinton means signing the Law of the Sea Treaty, another international straitjacket designed to transfer American wealth and technology to Third World countries.
New World Order under Bill Clinton means signing the United Nations Treaty on the Rights of the Child, which would transfer traditional rights of parents over the upbringing, discipline, education, health and welfare of their children, to a new international bureaucracy. (P.S. Report, March 1993)
New World Order under Bill Clinton means ratifying the United Nations Treaty on Discrimination Against Women, which would transfer traditional rights of American women to a committee of foreign "experts" who would make rules about child care, "family education," abortion, comparable worth, and even "interpersonal relationships." (P.S. Report, September 1990)
New World Order under Bill Clinton means a foreign policy directed by his Rhodes scholar pal Strobe Talbott, a lifetime advocate of world government and of ending what he calls the "obsolete" notions of nationhood and national sovereignty. (P.S. Report, June 1994)
On every conceivable issue, Bush has been worse than Clinton. For the last 80 years, Republicans have been advancing Big Government and the New World Order at a faster rate than Democrats. "Insanity" is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. When will conservatives stop the insanity of supporting the Republican Party election day after election day?
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