Destroying Our Defense By Jane H. Ingraham - The New American

Should U.S. troops be sent all over the world on UN missions? Whatever happened to Congress' sole right to declare war? Why weren't our POWs returned from Vietnam? How and why did the U.S. lose the war in Korea? Why has the ban against homosexuals in our services been scrapped? What was the real purpose of George Bush's Gulf War?

These are but a few of the unsettling questions concerning our military that are answered in this superb book by John F. McManus, president of the John Birch Society and publisher of THE NEW AMERICAN. Mr. McManus cuts to the heart of our top leaders' hidden one-world objectives and their crucial dependence upon a paramount role for the U.S. military. Calling on years of collected resources, Mr. McManus traces the thread of conspiracy from the Council on Foreign Relations through the United Nations to the betrayal of our military into the hands of the UN by Insiders committed to world government and the demise of our own autonomy.

Core of the Conspiracy
By the time the reader reaches the last page he is aghast at the full realization of the meaning of the gigantic web being spun by our own home-grown enemies. The nub of this web is, of course, the Council on Foreign Relations. For those not yet familiar with the origin, history, and agenda of America's semi-secret ruling cabal, Mr. McManus has added a special appendix on the CFR. Another aspect of this fact-filled book that readers will especially appreciate is that it names names -- lots of them. It isn't often that we come across a treasure trove like this. Other writers often leave us wondering who is behind the flood of repellent government moves that defy common sense. Whose ideas are these? Which of our leaders have switched their loyalty from the U.S. Constitution to the power elite? Who are the top military officers who have joined the cabal and are betraying our military from within? With his book in your hands, you will know.

Mr. McManus explains that the first step in the misuse of our military was the passage of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949, sold by the Truman Administration under the phony cover of a mutual alliance to contain the communist menace. As a creature of the "Insiders" UN and subservient to it, NATO in reality was set up as a path to regional merger, now being realized as NATO prepares to include Central and Eastern Europe and the former states of the Soviet Union as members. To begin the process, Truman was armed with an unprecedented and unconstitutional authority to dispatch troops to NATO.

One year later, in 1950, communist North Korea invaded the South and the UN Security Council called for members to intervene. Truman, the smiling little machine politician from Missouri still fondly remembered by some Americans, was the first to trash the law of this land (that only Congress can declare war) and honor the "superior" claims of the UN Security Council by answering its call for troops in this first of America's undeclared wars -- arrogantly called by Truman a "police action." What authority did Truman cite for his move? If he could send troops to NATO, he said, he could send them to Korea!

Why did the Insiders, in the person of Harry Truman, bring about this stunning reversal of constitutional law? How did it fit into the conspiratorial scheme of things? Mr. McManus explains that our hidden CFR world-government advocates, by this time fully in charge of the State Department in the persons of Dean Acheson and Dean Rusk (both still spoken of with respect) were secretly helping the Soviet Union in every conceivable way and building it into a world-threatening power, then using the public's fear of communist terror and expansion to induce the acceptance of steps toward world government.

Purposeful Defeat
The Korean War was fought entirely under the UN with only the U.S. responding (unnecessarily) to its call to any significant degree. In command of our troops was General Douglas MacArthur, who erroneously believed he was supposed to win. And win he did, liberating both South and North Korea. Then Chinese communist forces began pouring over the northern border from Manchuria, while MacArthur suddenly found himself criminally restricted in the use of his military power by Washington. Appalled, he objected, giving Truman the excuse to cashier him. Contrary to popular belief induced by the media, MacArthur was not removed for disobeying orders, which he never did, but for wanting to win.

The job of losing the War was given to a less honorable man, General Matthew Ridgway. The perverted rules of engagement Ridgway then instituted were responsible for many of the 50,000 American deaths. Subsequently, another 58,000 Americans were killed in Vietnam, where "our soldiers" hands were again tied by similar, seemingly insane, restrictions. Mr. McManus names Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara as the despicable traitors who created these rules of engagement in Vietnam, and Lyman Lemnitzer, Maxwell Taylor, William Westmoreland, and Andrew Goodpaster (all CFR members) as the generals who accepted them.

Mr. McManus' masterful telling of the equally devastating story of Vietnam is in itself worth the price of Changing Commands. Included in his discussion is Congress' second acquiescence to an undeclared war, President Johnson's appalling drive to boost trade in strategic goods with the communist nations of Europe that were the source of the Vietnamese communists' war machine, the intentional abandonment of our POWs as a result of a secret promise made by President Richard Nixon (CFR) and Henry Kissinger (CFR) to North Vietnam, Washington's continuing sickening cover-up, and the testimony of honorable generals that the war could have been won in a short time.

History Alive
Most Americans are probably unaware that Congress alone has the war-making power and how crucial this is to our Republic. One of the splendid features of Mr. McManus' book is his skill in the writing of history; his instruction is alive with much fascinating detail. His discussion of the Constitution's grant of power to declare war solely to Congress, so germain to our present peril, is a pleasure to read. He points out that so clearly did the Founders understand that declaring war was the function equally of both houses of Congress and never that of one man, that they almost took it for granted. Although the Constitution designates the President as Commander in Chief, Mr. McManus clarifies this as constituting an assignment of responsibility, not a grant of power. Under the Constitution, the President alone could not involve the country in war.

Was this cardinal constitutional provision based on fear? Yes, it was. Mr. McManus produces a striking quote from Abraham Lincoln that explains the reasoning: "Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending ... that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved so to frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing the oppression upon us."

Yet, acting like kings, this is exactly what Presidents Truman, Johnson, Nixon, Bush, and Clinton have done through the backdoor route of the UN Charter, a document written and signed into being with the help of CFR Insiders for this very purpose. And Congress let them do it. To its everlasting shame, Congress has acquiesced to illegal presidential military interventions in Korea, Vietnam, Panama, the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Haiti, and the Balkans. And because these leaders also transferred much of our nation's jurisdiction in war to the UN, adds Mr. McManus, they have compromised one of the most major elements of our national sovereignty.

In other words, without full U.S. control of our own military, we are giving up control of our destiny. What we are witnessing is the gradual absorption of the U.S. military into a UN peace force -- in short, a global police force, one of the ultimate aims of the Insiders and essential to their world control. Mr. McManus is at his eloquent best in his chapter on "Disarmament for All Except the UN," in which he discusses one of the most subversive documents ever to surface from our CFR State Department. Entitled Freedom From War: The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World, this is a step by-step plan for our own disarmament and the simultaneous buildup of the UN into the world's unchallengeable ruler. There would be no more U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines -- only "contributions" to the UN Peace Force and a national police force with all citizens disarmed, the mark of a brutal totalitarian state.

Mr. McManus explodes the pernicious myth that a UN Peace Force, with the rest of the world disarmed, would mean universal peace. On the contrary, he says, this program does not mean complete disarmament but selective disarmament whereby the UN alone would possess military might. That might would be used, in the words of the Freedom From War document, "for the enforcement [by arms] of international agreements, for the settlement of disputes, and for the maintenance of peace in accordance with the principles of the United Nations." Never has there been a clearer statement of world tyranny. The UN Peace Force does not mean peace, it means war. Any peace we would have, warns Mr. McManus, would be the peace of total submission.

This incredible document was presented to the UN General Assembly by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 and is still official U.S. policy. Again, Mr. McManus does not disappoint us as to the identity of the treasonous plotters who produced this monstrous plan; they were President Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (all CFR members), chairman of the board of the CFR John J. McCloy, and CFR board member Arthur H. Dean.

Adding riveting detail is an account of the little-known year-long program by which the CFR subverts the thinking of senior military officers plus a list of those who have attended; excerpts from a Marine questionnaire that raises the possibility of U.S. soldiers firing on civilians who refuse to give up their guns; numerous quotes from prominent leaders calling for the demise of the United States; and instances of the possible coming use of UN troops in the U.S.

In one sense, this is a truly horrifying book. But because it is, it should do much to infuse reality into the public's perception of the UN. Hope lies in a public demand that Congress, at the very least, cease funding UN wars and impeach Presidents who support them.

Source: http://www.federalobserver.com/