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Against All Enemies, Inside America’s War on Terror 

by Richard A. Clarke

          In May 1998, President Clinton appointed Richard A. Clarke to the first post of National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter Terrorism. Clarke continued in that position during the beginning of the George W. Bush Administration and was a career member of the Senior Executive Service until March 2003. 

Richard Clarke began federal service in 1973 in the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense as an analyst on nuclear weapons and European security issues.  He was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence during the Reagan Administration.  He was the Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs during the George H. W. Bush Administration.

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“…Ronald Reagan...did not retaliate for the murder of 278 United States Marines in Beirut and ... violated his own terrorism policy by trading arms for hostages in what came to be called the Iran-Contra scandal…”

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“…George H. W. Bush ... did not retaliate for the Libyan murder of 259 passengers on Pan Am 103 ... did not have an official counter terrorism policy; and ... left Saddam Hussein in place, requiring the United States to leave a large military presence in Saudi Arabia…”

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“…Bill Clinton ... identified terrorism as the major post-Cold War threat and acted to improve our counter terrorism capability ... quelled anti-American terrorism by Iraq and Iran and defeated an al Qaeda attempt to dominate Bosnia; but who, weakened by continued political attack, could not get the CIA, the Pentagon, and FBI to act sufficiently to deal with the threat…”

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“…George W. Bush ... failed to act prior to September 11 on the threat from al Qaeda despite repeated warnings and then harvested a political windfall for taking obvious yet insufficient steps after the attacks; and ... launched an unnecessary and costly war in Iraq that strengthened the fundamentalist, radical Islamic terrorist movement worldwide.”

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“…even after the attacks, America did not eliminate the al Qaeda movement, which morphed into a distributed and elusive threat … instead ... launched the counter-productive Iraq fiasco …the Bush administration politicized counter-terrorism as a way of insuring electoral victories…critical homeland security vulnerabilities remain; and … little is being done to address the ideological challenge from terrorists....”

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“The consensus against terrorism was shattered by ... the arrest of American citizens in the United States and their designation as “enemies” to be denied lawyers and due process.”

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“Rather than seriously…addressing the real security vulnerabilities …the Administration funded pork barrel procurement of high-tech weapons for small towns while police and fire personnel were laid off in high-threat cities.”

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“I have a disturbing image of ... [President George W. Bush] sitting by a warm White House fireplace drawing ... red Xs on the [pictures] of the former al Qaeda … while the new clones of al Qaeda are working the back alleys and dark warrens of Baghdad, Cairo, Jakarta, Karachi, Detroit, and Newark, using the scenes from Iraq to stroke the hatred of America even further, recruiting thousands whose names we will never know, whose faces will never be on President Bush’s little charts, not until it is again too late.”

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Against  All Enemies, Inside America's War on Terror is published by Free Press, A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc, New York, 2004.  

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