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THE CUTTING EDGE

NEWS BRIEF:  "Clinton Issues New Guidelines On U.S. Nuclear Weapons Doctrine", by Craig Cemeillo, Arms Control Today, November/December, 1997.

" THE CLINTON administration quietly made a significant change in U.S. strategic nuclear doctrine in November by formally abandoning guidelines ... that the United States must be prepared to fight and win a protracted nuclear war. The new Presidential Decision Directive (PDD), details of which were first reported in The Washington Post on December 7, operates from the premise that the primary role of nuclear weapons in the post-Cold War era is deterrence. In a December 23 interview, Robert Bell, senior director for defense policy and arms control at the National Security Council, provided additional information about the PDD and clarified some misperceptions in the press with respect to the Clinton administration's policy on "launch on warning" and the use of nuclear weapons against a chemical or biological weapons attack."

"Bell confirmed that "We have made an important change in terms of strategic nuclear doctrine in reorienting our presidential guidance away from any sense that you could fight and win a protracted nuclear war to a strategic posture that focuses on deterrence ... The administration made the decision to rewrite the old nuclear guidelines early in 1997 ... one key factor influencing the administration's decision to rewrite the old guidelines was that they were not compatible with the U.S. objective of achieving further strategic force reductions with the Russians. Moreover, the administration viewed the 1981 guidelines as an anachronism of the Cold War." [Emphasis added]

Let us stop here to digest what we have just learned.  Without any publicity, and without seeking advice and consent from the Senate, President Clinton changed the 40-year national strategy for responding to a nuclear attack.  President Eisenhower initiated the strategy of "launch upon confirmation of attack".  Thus, the Soviets were put on notice that they had no margin for error, and could not assume that they would be able to successfully carry out a surprise attack that would so destroy our nuclear forces that we would be prevented from destroying them.  This strategy was deemed so firm and so wise that Presidents Kennedy [D], Johnson [D], Nixon [R], Ford [R], Carter [D], Reagan [R], and Bush [R] kept it in place.  You may argue a lot of points against this policy, but at least it placed the Soviets on notice that we would launch before their missiles hit, thus absolutely destroying Russia.  This type of strategy has keepthe peace for over 40 years.

Now, President Clinton has quietly reversed this policy, on his own.  This reversal should have received the highest degree of bipartisandialogue in our nation's history, since our very physical survival is at stake.  But, oh, no, Clinton sought out no other party, other than his Joint Chiefs of Staff, who are notorious for being political when they deem it in their best interests.

However, the fact that disturbs me the most about this change in nuclear strategy is that one of the major reasons being given for making this change is their belief that Russia is no longer our enemy!!.  I have highlighted these reasonings in the paragraphs above, in red, to catch your attention.  Let us review this type of reasoning again:

According to President Clinton, America can afford to change our nuclear response strategy versus the threat of nuclear attack because:

1) This previous strategy was an "anachronism of the Cold War". What this means is that our national strategy of thinking of the Russians with great skepticism and fear is obsolete!  Why would this type of thinking be obsolete?  Because the Soviet Union has "dissolved" into many different smaller nations.  Too many people believe that just because the Soviet Union has dissolved, the military threat has also dissolved.  These people conveniently forget that the Russian government has assumed control over the nuclear stockpile of the most important states of the old Soviet Union, like the Ukraine.  Russia today has control over 65% of the total nuclear weapons which the old Soviet Union possessed. One other thing to remember is that Yeltsin and most other Russian leaders are still Communists in their inner hearts.  Do not ever, ever, ever forget this fact!

Even though Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin "agreed" to not target the other any more, but to reprogram their computers to targets in the vast oceans, any person with knowledge of computers can tell you it only takes about 30 minutes to reprogram the selected targets.  When I heard of this "agreement", I sadly felt insulted.  I felt my intelligence had just been insulted, but I concluded that Clinton was carrying out this charade because of his very low opinion of the discernmentaverage American. 

It is one thing for the average American to be so mislead that he believes the Russians are no longer a threat; but it is another thing completely for the President of the United States to be so naive  His naivete can and will get us all killed!

2)  But, as upset as I am about this naivete in the face of a well-armed and determined enemy, I am even more upset by the next reason given for making this terrible change in strategy.  Listen to the exact wording:  "one key factor influencing the administration's decision to rewrite the old guidelines was that they were not compatible with the U.S. objective of achieving further strategic force reductions with the Russians." What we are being told here is that the Clinton Administration believes it is more important to reap the political benefits of an agreement to "reduce" nuclear force reductions than it is to guarantee the survival of the United States!  In other words, even if an agreement on paper to reduce the nuclear force levels were to threaten the survival of the United States, Clinton would be willing to carry it out if it gave him great political benefits! But, this is one of the consequences of having a President that is driven by polling data rather than bedrock principle.

This factor is the most disturbing of all, because it exposes the inner workings of the Clinton mind.  President Clinton is literally playing Russian Roulette with our lives!  This is nothing other than Treason, High Crimes and Misdemeanors!  But, there is more, much more, that Clinton is doing that will prove to be fatal to the life of this Republic.  If I seem to be too gloomy in my assessment, it is because I believe the Economic Babylon destroyed by fire in one hour in Revelation 18 is the United States [See CE1038 for full details].  I believe the key details as to how America is destroyed are now beginning to become clear, with this President, at this most wicked time in our history.

Since President Clinton changed our Nuclear Response Strategy, what did he implement as the new strategy?  Listen and weep:  "Bell said 'in this PDD we direct our military forces to continue to posture themselves in such a way as to not rely on launch on warning--to be able to absorb a nuclear strike and still have enough force surviving to constitute credible deterrence'. Bell pointed out that while the United States has always had the "technical capability" to implement a policy of launch on warning, it has chosen not to do so. "Our policy is to confirm that we are under nuclear attack with actual detonations before retaliating," he said.

Have you ever heard of anything more stupid in your entire life?  "Our policy is to confirm that we are under nuclear attack with actual detonations before retaliating". In other words, we are going to wait until the President is informed that our entire network of planes and land-based missiles are totally destroyed by a Russian First Strike before he will consider whether to respond or how to respond!!  I am so upset by this insanity that I just do not know how to respond, except by shaking and trembling for the life of this country!  It is no wonder that reports are out that the present Yeltsin government is getting ready to strike the United States [this subject is found at the end of this article]. 

I can also foresee the horror and consternation felt on the part of the very patriotic military radar operators manning our radar facilities.  They can see the missiles coming in, they have notified everyone whom they were supposed to notify, and nothing has happened.  Yet, they can see the Russian "incoming" missiles bearing down on us, with no response on our part. I wonder what kind of reaction we will get from our illustrious leaders when they have been told that all our land-based missiles and aircraft have been totally destroyed by the Russian First Strike?  Again, I repeat, this is insanity at the highest level.

But, you say, we still have the third leg of our nuclear weapons forces which can obliterate the Russians, even if they could conceivable destroy our land and air capabilities -- our nuclear missile submarines.  They are ultra-modern, and very capable of bombing the Russians back to the Stone Age if they dared attack us.  You are right, and we could take solace in this fact, except that the Clinton Administration is entertaining a proposal to neuter our fine submarine capability.  If fact, knowing the Clinton Administration, I bet this "proposal" has already been implemented.

Consider this following article.

"DE-MIRVING SUBMARINES CUTS THE GORDIAN KNOT", http://www.fas.org/faspir/pir0198.htm, Volume 51, Number 1, January/February 1998.

"Notwithstanding the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the announced new Presidential guidelines, U.S. strategic force posture continues to emphasize time-urgent targeting of the strategic forces and the command and control sites of Russia. This policy, which could be implemented as a first strike or quick second strike (launch on warning) is completely unnecessary in the post-cold war era." [Emphasis added; Read NEWS1007, "Thesis X Antithesis = Synthesis" to understand that the "collapse" of the Soviet Union was not an accident of history!]

Even though the new Presidential guidelines for responding to a nuclear attack [which we reported above, and to which these authors refer in the first sentence of this article] supposedly go a long way toward moving the world back from the edge of nuclear annihilation [again, in the minds of these liberal authors], the one sticky problem remains our invincible submarine fleet.  Therefore, since the Russians could not destroy this weapon, the Clinton Administration is going to do it for them!  Listen:

"A third way would have the President instruct the Defense Department to study a START III proposal to eliminate all sea-based MIRV on both sides and to reduce the overall number of ballistic missile warheads to about 500. Such a proposal would precipitate the needed debate in a context of prospective bilateral disarmament. And the debate would focus on a weapon whose unfortunate characteristics were well-advertised even before then-Congressman Al Gore championed criticisms of MIRV."

This proposal would take all of the MIRV [Multiple, Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicles] missiles in our submarine fleet and take out all of the missiles in each warhead except for one.  Thus, our MIRV missiles would be neutered, and would become only a missile with one warhead on it.  I remember well the introduction of the MIRV missiles.  Conservatives hailed the technological advancement because it made it so much more difficult for the Russians to defend against it; in fact, there was no defense against it!  Therefore, the MIRV missiles dramatically increased the cushion of safety margin in any calculation the Russians might make in attacking the United States.  In other words, no matter how much the Russians might want to attack, and no matter how much they think they might possibly succeed, rational thinking would make them realize that the chances of success were impossible.  Thus, the Russian High Command was deterredfrom even thinking about attacking us.  We had just hung a sign over our nation, reading "DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!"

However, once you begin to reduce, or eliminate, that cushion of safety provided by possessing overwhelming nuclear forces, you immediately run the risk of the Russians thinking about destroying this country.  Therefore, this kind of thinking and planning, and change, on our behalf is very, very dangerous to our physical survival.  But, to think that the Clinton Administration is making this change because of their belief that the Cold War is over and all the risks are gone, is to court disaster. As we have repeatedly stated, Russia is still as dangerous as it ever was, and probably more so because of her economic disasters.

Remember, also, that history has taught us that the Communists have willfully violated every single treaty they ever signed!  What makes us think they will keep their promises to destroy huge numbers of weapons from their arsenal?  But, the Russians know that we will keep our word; they know that America will destroy the precise numbers of nuclear weapons for which the treaty calls.  With this double standard in place, we should not be surprised to learn that the Russians are very eager to "negotiate" even lower levels of warheads than even the Clinton Administration has proposed.  Listen:

"Happily the Russians are ready and eager to move toward much lower levels of strategic weapons than we have already proposed and the force sketched above for them is one to which they could readily move after START II by-deMIRVing their submarines."  Of course, the Russians are "happy" to see us draw down our nuclear weapons because they have no intention of doing so!  The only way to predict future behavior is to look at past behavior.  And the Russian Communists have violated every single agreement to which they have signed.

As we have repeatedly stated, Russia is still as dangerous as it ever was, and probably more so because of her economic disasters, and because Russia is uniquely identified in End of the Age prophecies as being the nation that will lead a massive army into the Middle East to attack Israel (Ezekiel 38-39).  Obviously, Russia has to neutralize America's bedrock support for Israel before she can move her huge forces against Israel.

With this thought in mind, please consider this final article:

"Defector Warns of Russian Plans", By Barry Schweid, AP Diplomatic Writer, Wednesday, July 8, 1998.

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former Soviet agent says Russia's military intelligence is gathering information on President Clinton, key congressional and military leaders and members of the Cabinet for assassination squads. Elite troops already are training in the United States and in the event of war 'would try to assassinate as many American leaders as possible, as well as their families,' Stanislav Lunev, a former colonel in the Russian military intelligence service, asserts in a book published Wednesday. They would also blow up power stations, telephone switching systems and dams and target secret landing sites for Air Force One, wrote Lunev, who defected in 1992."

"The use of tactical nuclear weapons would be likely,'' he said."

This warning from a former Soviet Union intelligence agent should serve as a wake-up call to all Americans, including President Clinton.  Instead of treating us a newly found friends, the Yeltsin Russian government is planning to attack us!  I guess the Russians do not believe that the old "Cold War" is over.  With the fuzzy headed thinking which Clinton has demonstrated for 6 years now, the Russians could very well have concluded that now is the time to attack.  Our later articles will show that President Clinton regularly leaves the White House without Secret Service guard, and is gone for hours at a time when no one -- not Secret Service, not Hillary, and no one on his staff -- knows where he is. 

Thus, the Russians would have a "window of opportunity" during such times to attack.  If their elite assassination squads were to take out Vice President Gore and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, they just might be able to sow enough confusion in our military response time to enable them to attack to destroy our land-based missiles and airplanes in a surprise first attack.  Remember also that Russian missiles do not have to come over the North Pole. Let us listen a little bit more to this Russian intelligence defector.

"In the book, ``Through the Eyes of the Enemy,' and in an Associated Press interview, Lunev said special agents were entering the United States as foreign tourists on fake passports and that elite troops were locating sites to deposit small nuclear devices, known as suitcase bombs in the Shenandoah Valley outside Washington and the Hudson Valley of New York. Russia remains terrified of the power of America, and Russian military intelligence does everything it can to prepare for a war that it considers inevitable,' Lunev wrote."

Truly, the End of the Age is upon us.  Are you spiritually ready? Is your family? Are you adequately protecting your loved ones? This is the reason for this ministry, to enable you to first understand the peril facing you, and then help you develop strategies to warn and protect your loved ones. Once you have been thoroughly trained, you can also use your knowledge as a means to open the door of discussion with an unsaved person. I have been able to use it many times, and have seen people come to Jesus Christ as a result. These perilous times are also a time when we can reach many souls for Jesus Christ, making an eternal difference.