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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: American Spirit who wrote (4749)3/8/2004 1:09:46 AM
From: TopCat  Read Replies (2) of 90947
 
Once again, you didn't seem to understand the question. I asked, "what has Kerry ever done in his career to become an expert on counter-terrorism?" Nevertheless, I may just read the book. But I may come to the same conclusion this reviewer did from CBS News....

"Kerry must be assuming no one will go back and actually read his manifesto, because his description of it is awfully selective. Yes, Kerry briefly considered the possibility of a terrorist catastrophe on American soil. But The New War was almost entirely focused on the threat of global crime -- not terrorism. If the future Kerry predicted really had arrived, we'd currently be locked in a vicious cyberwar with CD-pirating Japanese yakuza, Chinese kidney-traders, and Italian mobsters -- not hunting Islamic fundamentalists potentially armed with weapons of mass destruction.

It is, of course, true that almost no one predicted a September 11-like attack, and few correctly identified Islamic terrorists as the chief post-cold-war security threat to the United States. But the ways in which The New War missed the mark are nevertheless revealing. They show the extent to which Kerry was influenced by the criminal investigations of his early Senate career, his preference for viewing post-cold-war security more as a matter for law enforcement than the military, and his tendency to describe problems ad nauseam without offering a clear and bold course of action."

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