Blogs For Bush Interviews Richard Miniter
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I now have available for your listening pleasure, my blogger exclusive interview (from Thursday night) with Richard Miniter, author of <font color=green>"Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror"<font color=black> which is coming out in paperback in a week.
We discussed the convention and more specifically a key issue in this election: the war on terror, he told me that there are lots of things in that people need to remember before going to the voting booth. He told me, <font color=green>"If you elect Kerry, you are voting for the Clinton approach to fighting terrorism ... if you look at the foreign policy team - the counterterrorism team that Kerry has assembled, it is the old Clinton team ... It's all the same people, it's all the old same ideas, the law enforcement approach to fighting terrorism. You can say a lot of things in favor of that approach, but the one thing you cannot say is that it works."<font color=black>
I decided to ask Mr. Miniter how Bush's approach to fighting terrorism differs from that approach, from both before and after 9-11. He informed me that before 9-11 Bush had a plan to hit bin Laden's bases in Afghanistan but it took a while for that plan to make it through the national security bureaucracy and it was finally approved on September 4, and by then <font color=green>"it was just a race against time."<font color=black>
He did tell me, that since September 11, the Bush administration <font color=green>"has been unlike any administration, Democrat or Republican, since the end of WWII. Extremely effective, extremely active."<font color=black>
Most interesting was when he told me, that based on
information he has from high level intelligence sources
that on average, that they disrupt one plot a day against
Americans somewhere around the world.
Miniter, who has had access to intelligence documents, told me that there was a plot against the U.S. embassy in Paris that was stopped, the U.S. embassy in Bamako, Mali was also targeted, but an attack was prevented. A plot <font color=green>"to turn 15 different ships into floating bombs and set them off against U.S. warships – that was stopped."<font color=black>
There have been many plots that have been stopped, and some of these end up on the newswires, but the <font color=green>"the media just yawns."<font color=black>
The government has been trying to get this information out. But the media just ignores it. Because of this, Miniter told me that is why blogs are so important. He says, <font color=green>"blogs operate as alternative assignment editors."<font color=black> Because assignment editors decide which stories are important and which ones are not. Bloggers can <font color=green>"connect the dots,"<font color=black> he told me.
With all this insight into war on terror, I had to ask him if he felt John Kerry could fight an effective war on terror. He answered, <font color=green>"I don't think he can, partly because the team that surrounds him is the Clinton team. These guys had a whack at it between 1996 and 2000."<font color=black> And then explain how mindset of the members of the Clinton administration, particularly in their response to the USS Cole bombing. <font color=green>"They had all these excuses for not acting, and it worries me – if you elect Kerry, you elect this team ... you are electing a failed approach, a 'make excuses' not 'take action' approach."<font color=black>
This interview offers some great insight into why we need George W. Bush to be reelected. Miniter strongly believes that Kerry just won't cut it when fighting the war on terror. I urge you all to listen to this interview.<font size=3>
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