A no-win war without end? By embracing state sponsors of terrorism like Russia and China, our leaders ensure that the "war on terror" will never end in conclusive victory. (Terrorism).

America has also accepted a great challenge in the world; to wage a relentless and systematic campaign against global terror.... We are in for a long and difficult war. It will be conducted on many fronts. But as long as it takes, we will prevail.

President George W. Bush

April 30, 2002

In the same April 30th speech in San Jose, California, cited above, President Bush pointed to the early successes in Afghanistan and pledged that "in every cave, in every dark corner of that country, we will hunt down the killers and bring them to justice." Then, throwing down the rhetorical gauntlet to the terrorists and their state sponsors, he repeated a line he had used before: "Across the world, governments have heard this message: you're either with us, or you're with the terrorists." Like many of his similar calls to arms since the 9-11 terrorist attacks on America, this expression of resolute determination resonated with his audience and was greeted with vigorous applause. Americans want the perpetrators of these heinous crimes brought to justice -- dead or alive. It is both a matter of justice and national security that we follow through on this commitment, for those allowed to escape will, almost assuredly, strike again.

But is the Bush administration waging the kind of war on terror that will bring the 9-11 terrorists to justice and destroy the global terror networks at war with America? Unfortunately, it is not. In fact, the current U.S. "war on terror" is on course to become another "no-win" war like the war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on inflation, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and other failed crusades of previous administrations. The consequences of failure in this case, however, could prove far more catastrophic, both in terms of loss of lives and loss of liberty.

We must not close our eyes to the plain truth in so grave a matter. It is utterly impossible for us to win the war on terror as it currently is being waged. The facts are clear; the president has:

Recruited a posse including the worst terrorist state sponsors. The coalition of "allies" President Bush put together includes Russia and China, who support the terrorist organizations through surrogate states, while continuing to build weapons of mass destruction for Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, and Libya. This is absurd; it is the equivalent of declaring war on organized crime and then inviting the mafia kingpins onto the Police Commission as allies and praising their assistance when they help arrest a few of their own low-level thugs or drug peddlers. Calamity is guaranteed from the start.

Committed our nation to an endless, undefined war. This is an open-ended, global conflict with no exit strategy and no clear definition of the objectives constituting victory. The president and administration officials have repeatedly stated that this war could go on for many years and range over the entire globe.

Centralized vast, unprecedented police powers in Washington. The consolidation of law enforcement powers following 9-11 presents an even greater threat to our constitutional order and liberty than any terrorist attack could. This is following the terrorist script, as explained in the article beginning on page four, by terrorist leaders Marighella, Feltrinelli, bin Laden, and others.

Weakened our borders. President Bush has continued the dangerous, out-of-control immigration policies of Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr. He has even announced support for the Free Trade Area of the Americas, which would abolish the borders (and border controls) between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada -- and then all of Latin America. Anyone who doubts that this is the intent need only look at the gradual submergence of European nations in the EU, the model for the FTAA.

Appointed the United Nations to head the posse. The United Nations is not just a menagerie of misfits and kleptocrats, but a colossal Terrorists-R-Us. The UN General Assembly is loaded with terrorist state members such as Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Cuba, Russia, China, North Korea, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, etc. And the Security Council, the most powerful branch of the UN, includes terrorist sponsors Russia and China as permanent members. President Bush has placed the "war on terror" under the aegis of this same terrorist-laden UN, and under the restrictions imposed by UN Security Council Resolution 1373. Consider also:

* Within weeks after the 9-11 attacks, the UN voted to give terrorist state Syria a seat on the Security Council. (Syria was even president of the Security Council during June 2002.)

* In 2002, terrorist state Libya was placed on the UN Human Rights Commission.

* The UN chose as co-chairman for its 2000 Millennium Summit Sam Nujoma, Namibia's dictator and leader of the Communist terrorist group SWAPO.

* At the UN's 2002 Earth Summit in Johannesburg, Robert Mugabe, dictator of terrorist state Zimbabwe received a cheering, standing ovation from delegates.

* The UN's 2001 Summit on Racism held in South Africa days before the 9-11 attacks turned into a giant hate-America conference featuring many of the top terrorist state leaders.

* Major General Paul Vallely, USA (retired), has recently provided eyewitness testimony and photographs showing UN personnel in Syrian-occupied Lebanon collaborating with Hezbollah terrorists and a UN facility flying the Hezbollah flag.

* Each of the UN's member terrorist states sends delegates to the U.S. with full diplomatic immunity. Many of these UN "diplomats" are intelligence agents, some with terror assignments.

* Two of Sudan's agents, Siraj Yousef and Ahmed Yousef Muhammad, used their UN diplomatic cover to help plan the second New York Trade Center bombing conspiracy in 1993 (which was foiled). Their immunity protected them from arrest.

* Filiberto Ojeda Rios, an agent for Fidel Castro, masterminded a series of bombings throughout the U.S. by the Puerto Rican FALN, while enjoying diplomatic immunity at the Cuban UN Mission.

If not reversed, our present policies will lead to national suicide. Congress must be made to see the folly and peril of continuing this course. It must exercise its authority to protect the Constitution and implement genuine national security measures.