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RUSH: We\u2019re joined now by Bill Gertz, another book, a prolific writer. Bill, it\u2019s a long title. I\u2019m going to mention the title in full once, and I\u2019m just going to call it The Failure Factory after that. Is that all right?<\/p>\n

GERTZ: That\u2019s great.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans are Undermining America\u2019s Security and Leading Us to War. Now, your focus is the Pentagon, that\u2019s your beat for the Washington Times, but you cover in this book the financial sector in a way. I mean, you write about Henry Paulson, you refer to them as ‘the Goldman Sachs gang.\u2019 Tell people what\u2019s in your book about the current circumstance.<\/p>\n

<\/a>GERTZ: Yeah, this is a different look for me in terms of in the past I\u2019ve focused on national security issues, mostly threats from abroad, North Korea and China. This is really a look at a broken, bloated, highly politicized in the leftward direction, government bureaucracy. And I argue that it\u2019s not simply a nuisance or a fetter to effective government, that it\u2019s actually dangerous in that it\u2019s creating policies that are projecting weakness and weakness is provocative, and I think we\u2019re in real trouble. It\u2019s gotta be one of the highest priorities to try and fix this bureaucracy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, the problem, the bureaucracy gets bloated with career appointees. Bill, tell people — I tell \u2019em, they\u2019ll hear it from you, you\u2019re an expert — all during the run-up to the Iraq war and after it started, we would see battle plans leaked, front page New York Times, front page Washington Post. Some of them were factual, some of them were incorrect. But the point was to undermine the effort. Now, those leaks had to come from the Pentagon, they had to come from State or CIA. These are people undermining the Bush policy here, and people think that the president populates these places with his people and his team and they don\u2019t understand how this operates.<\/p>\n

GERTZ: Exactly. It\u2019s kind of like the inmates running the asylum in this case. You have these bureaucrats that are out of control, they\u2019re predominantly left liberal in political outlook, and, most importantly, they\u2019re conservative haters. They hate conservatives, they hate conservative policies, and that\u2019s really their focus in trying to change things in a liberal direction, whether it\u2019s on the Iraq war, whether it\u2019s on the war of ideas against Islamist extremism, or, as we\u2019ve seen in the policy that Paulson did towards China, a completely appeasement-oriented policy towards China.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The bureaucracy that you write about is now clearly ecstatic, I would think, with the incoming Obama administration. What does that portend? I mean, how is this going to lead to us war? That\u2019s in your title.<\/p>\n

GERTZ: Yes. Basically my argument in The Failure Factory is that the bureaucrats do not want the United States to be a strong power, and they want to project weakness, conciliation. We\u2019re going to see arms control policies that have failed 100% of the time in the past, because as is always the case, the US abides by these agreements, and the people that we do these agreements with violate them, whether it\u2019s North Korea or Russia in the past. So we\u2019ve got to make sure and, you know, this is the role of the press and talk radio is to expose these policies.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) The press? Bill, have you seen the latest AP poll?<\/p>\n

GERTZ: I\u2019m telling you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: People don\u2019t want their tax cuts now. They\u2019re willing to delay the tax cuts because Obama has such a hard job ahead. In fact, they\u2019re not even that concerned about getting out of Iraq now. AP poll today, the press is gonna hold the bureaucracy accountable? They\u2019re going to build \u2019em up. They\u2019re going to help hide what goes on in there. I mean the press and the bureaucrats are practically joined at the hip.<\/p>\n

GERTZ: Exactly. Hopefully the Washington Times, my paper, won\u2019t be in that position.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no, but as such you\u2019ll be like the rest in talk radio and you\u2019ll be attacked. What\u2019s the most devastating thing in this book? People read this, I don\u2019t want you to give it all away, but —<\/p>\n

GERTZ: Sure. The most important thing is the broken intelligence community. Basically, I report on this recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, but this was really a power play by liberal intelligence analysts to undermine international pressure on Iran to halt its illegal nuclear program. That\u2019s the most significant case. And this had far-reaching consequences. We now are facing an Iran with missiles of increasing range and very soon down the road in a matter of months or years, a nuclear weapon for those missiles.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Moscow announced yesterday, Bill, that Raul Castro will visit Moscow in January or February, early next year. There\u2019s no word on whether Raul will stop in Washington and pick up Barack Obama for the trip. But it\u2019s deja vu here. We\u2019ve got the KGB back running Russia; we got \u2019em making deals now trying to form a new alliance with Cuba. We got the Drive-By Media salivating over the fact that Camelot is back, which means that civil rights leaders, black civil rights leaders will be wiretapped, we just don\u2019t know who. What are we to make, seriously, of the effort by Russia and China to form another alliance?<\/p>\n

GERTZ: Oh, this is part of an anti-US alliance that\u2019s emerging. China is basically the leader of it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But wait a minute. If we\u2019re going to be so nice, if we\u2019re going to disarm, if we\u2019re going to make all these deals, if we\u2019re going to appease, if we\u2019re going to cut our own selves down to size, could you explain if there is an answer to this, the motivation of the left? Why do they think that this country needs to be torn down? What benefit to the country and to the world is there for this to happen, and then, when they do all these things and it still doesn\u2019t result in us being loved, we have these deals like the Russians and the Cubans trying to put together an alliance and so forth, what is there to gain by doing this? What is their motivation?<\/p>\n

GERTZ: It\u2019s clear to me that it\u2019s become an ideology of the liberal left that the United States is the cause of the world\u2019s problems. These are the blame-America-first liberals. They are now in power, and we\u2019re going to see an aggressive campaign to basically denigrate the United States. Now, they will couch their things by saying, ‘Oh, yes, we love America, we want America to be great,\u2019 but we are going to see anti-Americanism fostered around world by this lack of soft power. We often hear about the liberals talk about soft power. Soft power is great, but we don\u2019t have any capability for that right now. The State Department is basically a diplomatic post. They don\u2019t understand the threats facing the world, the enemies that are out there that want to destroy this country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you concerned about this Russia\/China thing?<\/p>\n

GERTZ: Yes. It\u2019s part of this emerging anti-US axis that we\u2019re seeing. The Chinese are tacitly behind it, but they don\u2019t want to disrupt trade to make money from us, but really I think when historians look back they\u2019re going to talk about who lost Russia in much the way they talked about who lost China. We had a great opportunity to coax China in a Democratic direction, and just through neglect of the past ten years or so we\u2019ve seen Russia slide back into anti-democratic, anti-US policies.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, nobody seems to be doing anything about it. Hugo Chavez ditto. We watch these circumstances percolate all around the world, terrorism is still rife and so forth, and the enemies of this country are making it very clear who they are and what their intentions are. And yet we get stories in the paper: ‘The world is waiting for Barack Obama. The world now loves the United States of America.\u2019 We\u2019re being prepped here with an image, demagoguery, charismatic demagoguery. We don\u2019t even know who this guy is. Well, some of us know who he is, but it\u2019s a frightening international situation. Are you at all confident, do you have any thoughts on whether the Obama people, and whoever you think he\u2019s going to name at State and in the Pentagon, do you think that they have what it takes to understand reality when it hits them in the face?<\/p>\n

GERTZ: Absolutely not. That\u2019s the biggest problem. We\u2019re going to see what his policies will be by the people he chooses. I point out in the book that one of his key advisors was a guy named John Hollum, who was one of the most appeasement oriented arms controllers during the Clinton administration who basically tried to extend the anti-ballistic missile treaty to cover short-range missile defenses, which horrified most of the people in the Pentagon, who said, ‘Look, we need defenses against short-range missiles.\u2019 So that\u2019s the kind of thing we\u2019re going to see. We\u2019re already seeing differences emerge with the Obama transition people and the Polish leader on needed missile defenses in Europe.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bill Gertz, I appreciate your time. It\u2019s always nice to talk to you. The name of the book is The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans are Undermining America\u2019s Security and Leading Us to War. By the way, two more questions before I have to go to the break. What war, where\u2019s the war going to be, and is there any way that this can be stopped, is there any way we can deal with this?<\/p>\n

GERTZ: Yeah. I think the biggest threat facing the country is a future war with China. The Chinese are building up their military forces on a war footing, they\u2019re cranking out new submarines like sausages, and our leadership is basically in a delusionary mode by claiming over and over again that there\u2019s no threat from China, and that is projecting weakness, which is going to lead to some miscalculation down the road, I predict, in the not-too-distant future. The solution is we need tough policies. We need to project peace through strength. We need to get back to the Reagan principles of conservative national security policy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we\u2019re going to have to wait on that for a while because Obama clearly does not hold those views to be compatible with his own. Bill, thanks very much. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n

GERTZ: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bill Gertz. The Failure Factory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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