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To: Sully- who wrote (23038)	1/5/2004 9:57:43 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793690

Science reporting is the worst offender of all A 6'5" Arab is pretty tough to hide. :>) He has too much to gain by looking the same and making a video. Dead as a doornail, IMO.

To: Sully- who wrote (23038)	1/5/2004 10:06:25 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793690

Frum blurbs his new book on NRO. JAN. 5, 2004: BOOK NOTES It’s exactly one year since my book The Right Man appeared. In the subsequent twelve months, the United States under the leadership of President Bush has scored many crucial victories in the war on terror. The overthrow of Saddam Hussein and his later capture obviously head the list, but there’s more: the capture of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Muhammed in Pakistan in March; the capture of Saif al-Adel, the planner of the Riyadh terror bombings, in May;and the foiling of hundreds of major plots, possibly including a horrific year-end set of airplane terror attacks on American cities. All of this is good news. But even as U.S. and allied military and intelligence forces have won victory after victory abroad, there has been a perceptible ebbing of unity and determination here at home. The Democratic party is rallying to a candidate whose big idea is to fight the war on terror with injunctions and court orders. The CIA and State Department have gone into more or less open rebellion against President Bush, sabotaging his administration with leaks intended to wound and cripple. Bad old habits of complacency and sluggishness are reasserting themselves throughout the federal bureaucracy. Last spring, my friend Richard Perle and I had a long talk about the very real danger that the war on terror would be lost--not on the battlefield--but in the corridors of the capital. We set out to do our best to persuade Americans to rededicate themselves to the fight--and to accept nothing less from its leaders than a total commitment to victory over terrorism. But it was not going to be enough to exhort people: We had to offer them some kind of vision of what victory would look like and how it could be achieved. That was the genesis of our book, An End To Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, which went on sale on December 30. Among other things, An End to Evil calls for rewriting the U.N. Charter to recognize that the United States and other nations are entitled to defend themselves against nations that use terrorism as a weapon of war--and for the U.S. to quit the U.N. if it won’t reform. It urges that the U.S. government target foreign individuals who hire and support terrorists by banning them from U.S. soil and seizing their assets in much the same way that the U.S. seized German and Japanese assets during World War II. It argues for tighter controls on entry into the United States and a new national ID card to guarantee that those who are not entitled to be in the country will be caught and deported. It advocates regime change in Syria and Iran--and intense pressure on Saudi Arabia, backed by warnings that anything less than total cooperation with the United States will mean the end of the Saudi state. It says that the time has come to face up to the fact that the system of alliances Americans built to fight the Soviets now has to be rethought. Some old associates--France in particular--have ceased in any important way to be allies any longer, and while we should regret their decision, we should not ignore it. But other countries that did not use to be friends, India for example, are becoming essential to American security--and we should act on that good news as well. And all of this is just an appetizer portion. We knew from the start that An End to Evil would be a controversial book--and we welcome the controversy. A news story and editorial about An End to Evil appeared in the Daily Telegraph last week (registration required); it was reviewed in the Washington Post on Sunday. I’ll take the blogger’s liberty of replying to these notices from time to time in this space, beginning with a response tomorrow to the Post. Richard and I will be touring the country beginning January 7 to make the case for the ideas in the book: Details can be found on the “appearances” page at www.davidfrum.com. You can get a copy of An End to Evil by clicking here; and here you can find a link to the new paperback edition of The Right Man which was released on December 30 as well. I hope NRO readers will find the new book interesting. Even more, I hope that it can contribute in at least some small way to reminding Americans of what is at stake in this war--and the coming wartime presidential election. nationalreview.com