It’s been said that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

I suspect the world’s first arms shipment was the boulder Abel sold to Cain. And the first payback was when Cain used that boulder to smash Abel’s skull.

I remember hearing in high school how the US sold Japan recycled scrap metal used by the Emperor to build the bombs dropped on Pearl Harbor.

The last eight years of Clinton sell-outs to our enemies in Russia and China have raised the "Cain/Abel" and Pearl Harbor scenarios up a few notches…to the level of human extinction. Selling a few nuclear secrets here and there can do that.

We could spend hours examining the Wen Ho Lee case and security lapses at our nuclear research facilities. We could question the wisdom of handing China control of the Panama Canal, a Long Beach, California shipping facility and allowing a similar Chinese base to be established off the US coast in the Bahamas.

We could lament the threats that Asia’s fire-breathing dragon has spewed toward underdog Taiwan and the obvious global ambitions Peking is projecting by massing 700 thousand troops in the Sudan, disguised as oilfield workers and security personnel.

But today, we have two new issues of serious consequence to the continued existence of the United States…and sad to say…the American people will probably not care enough to pick up the phone and call a congressman.

This time, the US senate is sounding the alarm. A non-partisan letter sent to President Clinton and signed by 50 members of the senate details the risk of allowing 50 Chinese firms to receive "super computers" that could be used to develop weapons for our own destruction.

At present, only six Chinese firms are on a US blacklist.

Word of the senate warning comes at a time when Chinese observers admitted that recent maneuvers were held and future military plans are being designed for wars that will be fought against the United States. I repeat. These predictions came from top Chinese students of geo-politics.

So, once again, the United States will probably do nothing to stop the Chinese from taking our technology with the stated intention of burning America "from sea to shining sea."

Perhaps Bill Clinton could take a tip from Forrest Gump. After all, "Stupid is as stupid does."

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