Strategic Investment, April 2003
 
How long have you been a subscriber to Strategic Investment?  However long it has been, this column has been there for you every month.  The first Behind The Lines column appeared in early 1987.  I had just returned from a sojourn in the jungles of Surinam with the guerrillas of the Surinamese Liberation Army fighting the Marxist dictatorship of Desi Bouterse.  The column reported on what I saw and experienced.
 
In 1987, even though Ronald Reagan had been in the White House for over six years, the struggle for freedom against Soviet imperialism was still very much in doubt.  Stinger missiles had finally been given to the Afghan Mujahaddin, but the CIA was insisting they be given only to a group of anti-American Islamic fascists led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.  Left-wing ideologues in Congress were preventing Stinger deliveries to the Contras in Nicaragua.  The world was swooning over Gorbachev, and when I gave speeches about how the Berlin Wall would fall and the Soviet Empire vanish in a few years, even most conservatives thought it was an incredible fantasy.
 
Yet the fantasy became reality — no surprise to readers of SI.  What did take us by surprise was after winning the Cold War, America proceeded to go on a moral holiday.  Barely a week after the inauguration of a white trash presidency in January 1993, SI readers were scandalized when I informed them that the new First Lady was bisexual (publicly confirmed years later by presidential advisor Dick Morris). 
 
Waco woke us up to the fact that the white trash presidency wasn’t just disgusting, it was evil.  Janet Reno, I revealed to SI readers, was “America’s Saddam.”  Having a degree in chemistry from Cornell, she authorized the use of the poison gas by the FBI to murder dozens of women and children at Waco, a gas having the same effects as that used by Saddam upon the Kurds.
 
Nothing, however, could dissuade America from staying on moral vacation — not even stains on a blue dress or the maker of those stains selling classified military technology to the Chinese in return for campaign donations.  It was just too much fun making money in Dotcom City to be bothered. 
 
Our country sobered up just in time.  It is easy to believe that the election of George W. Bush is Providential.  You, of course, saw it coming.  In the May 1997 SI, I predicted that he would be the next President of the United States.  No one, on the other hand, foresaw the unimaginable depravity perpetrated upon America on September 11, 2001.
 
Today, America faces an enemy more dangerous than the Soviets.  The War on Moslem Terrorism will be more difficult to win than the Cold War.  The danger isn’t simply the Saddams and Osamas out there in the world.  We are currently suffering the greatest penetration of the United States by enemy forces in our history.  The Saudis are spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year now to ensure that radical “Wahhabi” Moslems are in almost total command of Islam in America, and control over 80% of mosques on US soil.
 
Saudi billions are funding the conversion of countless normal Moslems around the world — from Indonesia to Pakistan to France to Brazil and dozens of other countries — into hate-filled anti-America Wahhabi fanatics.  Saudi money is buying journalists and reporters everywhere, especially in the French and Russian media.  A number of prominent American columnists, such as Robert Novak and Georgie Anne Geyer, are on Saudi payrolls albeit with cutouts.
 
Our world today almost makes you nostalgic for the Cold War, a two-dimensional chess game that we only had to play with Moscow.  Now we have to play several three-dimensional games with multiple opponents simultaneously.  The lunatic running the asylum of North Korea.  China waging economic warfare on the entire world.  Ayatollahs in Tehran about to get nukes.  Western Europe becoming an envious and bankrupt cultural museum.  Democrats in Congress determined to ruin GW’s efforts to revive the US economy.  The list of world pathologies goes far beyond Mesopotamian dictatorships and the monsters of Al Qaeda.
 
Behind The Lines, my column in SI for over 16 years, comes to an end this month.  Yet it is not goodbye.  With help and cooperation of Dan Denning and my other friends at SI,  I am launching To The Point, a “meta-newsletter” providing deep-background information on industries, businesses, technologies, political machinations, and geopolitical events that impact your investment decisions.
 
To The Point will enable me to fully utilize the extraordinary network of intelligence sources I have developed in scores of countries, providing subscribers with, in effect, their personal intelligence service.  Since I announced To The Point last February, the response has been wonderfully gratifying.  But now is the last time I can tell you about it, so let me tell you straight:  I want you to be a part of the community of To The Point. 
 
I have formed so many friendships over the years with readers of Behind The Lines.  I am looking forward to doing the same with To The Point.  As a subscriber, you’ll be invited to participate in our conferences, seminars, Politically Incorrect Cruises, and Investment Safaris.  The result will be your seeing the world in a deeper and more coherent light, your understanding the world as few others do — and we’ll all have a great time in doing so.
 
Our new century is becoming far more complex than the last.  We face far more dangers — and far more opportunities.  To The Point allows me to address them far more comprehensively than compressing and abbreviating them in one short Behind The Lines column.  It has been the most special privilege to have a monthly conversation with SI readers for all these years.  I want to express my profound appreciation to Jim Davidson, Bill Bonner, Dan Denning, and the entire SI family for enabling this privilege.  Just remember this is not goodbye.  You know where to find me when you want to cut through the world’s maze and start getting to the point.