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Against All Enemies : Inside America's War on Terror
by Authors:
Richard Clarke
Paperback Description:
Few political memoirs have made such a dramatic entrance as that by Richard A. Clarke. During the week of the initial publication of Against All Enemies, Clarke was featured on 60 Minutes, testified before the 9/11 commission, and touched off a raging controversy over how the presidential administration handled the threat of terrorism and the post-9/11 geopolitical landscape. Clarke, a veteran Washington insider who had advised presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush, dissects each man's approach to terrorism but levels the harshest criticism at the latter Bush and his advisors who, Clarke asserts, failed to take terrorism and Al-Qaeda seriously. Clarke details how, in light of mounting intelligence of the danger Al-Qaeda presented, his urgent requests to move terrorism up the list of priorities in the early days of the administration were met with apathy and procrastination and how, after the attacks took place, Bush and key figures such as Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Dick Cheney turned their attention almost immediately to Iraq, a nation not involved in the attacks. Against All Enemies takes the reader inside the Beltway beginning with the Reagan administration, who failed to retaliate against the 1982 Beirut bombings, fueling the perception around the world that the United States was vulnerable to such attacks. Terrorism becomes a growing but largely ignored threat under the first President Bush, whom Clarke cites for his failure to eliminate Saddam Hussein, thereby necessitating a continued American presence in Saudi Arabia that further inflamed anti-American sentiment. Clinton, according to Clarke, understood the gravity of the situation and became increasingly obsessed with stopping Al-Qaeda. He had developed workable plans but was hamstrung by political infighting and the sex scandal that led to his impeachment. But Bush and his advisers, Clarke says, didn't get it before 9/11 and they didn't get it after, taking a unilateral approach that seemed destined to lead to more attacks on Americans and American interests around the world. Clarke's inside accounts of what happens in the corridors of power are fascinating and the book, written in a compelling, highly readable style, at times almost seems like a fiction thriller. But the threat of terrorism and the consequences of Bush's approach to it feel very sobering and very real. --John Moe
Average Customer Rating:
An opportunity squandered!
A fascinating, riveting, and compelling indictment of the Bush administration. Its obsession with invading Iraq and its refusal to seriously address and deal with the al-Qaeda problem are brilliantly described by Richard A. Clarke - a terrorism expert and White House insider. No one has more or better experience or credentials to write a book like this than does Clarke. He speaks with authority and conviction; we ignore him (or scorn and ridicule him as the hatemongers on talk radio love to do) at our own peril.
He writes:
September 11 erased memories of the unique process whereby George Bush had been selected as President a few months earlier. Now, as he stood with an arm around a New York fireman promising to get those who had destroyed the World Trade Center, he was every American's President. His polls soared. He had a unique opportunity to unite America, to bring the United States together with allies around the world to fight terrorism and hate, to eliminate al Qaeda, to eliminate our vulnerabilities, to strengthen important nations threatened by radicalism. He did none of those things. He invaded Iraq.
Our nation needed thoughtful leadership to deal with the underlying problems made evident on September 11. Instead, America got unthinking reactions, ham-handed responses, and a rejection of analysis in favor of received wisdom. It has left us less secure. We will pay the price for a long time.
the administration's obsession with Iraq and the rush to war
This book is a real eye opener. I highly recommend this wonderful book to anyone who wonders about how the gov't worked related to terrorism (under the 4 recent presidents) and how we got into Iraq.
Foreign and Domestic
Richard Clarke spent his long government career working to prevent what happened on September 11, 2001. But he couldn't do it alone and when he was marginalized by the White House, we were left unnecessarily vulnerable.
The first chapter of Against All Enemies reads like a thriller, and it is easy to see why Sony Pictures bought the movie rights. Clarke takes us through the events of September 11 from inside the White House. Although there was disbelief at first, it wasn't long before everyone kicked into gear and started dealing with the attack. Were there more attacks to come? Where was the President? Was Washington a target? You will relive the day as you read, imagining what you would have done if you had been a member of the tense and focused government team.
As gripping as the first chapter is, the real story of course, is the events before and after September 11. Before the attack, Clarke describes warning Condoleezza Rice about the threat of Osama bin Laden and trying to warn the President, without success. The incredible frustration Clarke experienced comes through in his book.
After September 11, it gets even worse. Even though it was obvious to everyone that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the attack, the President and Vice President were convinced (or pretended to be convinced) that Saddam Hussein was somehow involved, too. Clarke worked hard to dispel this unwarranted notion, but was ultimately unsuccessful. As soon as possible after the Taliban was ousted from power in Afghanistan, Iraq became the next target. Clarke argues that Iraq was not involved in the September 11 attacks and was not in cahoots with terrorists. Further, and more important, fighting a war against Iraq diverted resources from Afghanistan, where bin Laden still had not been caught, and hadn't been stopped from planning further attacks.
It seems Clarke might have given the Administration the benefit of the doubt if they had simply ignored the threat before September 11. But they refused to learn from their mistakes and continued to focus their attention AWAY from bin Laden, giving him time to regroup and giving him further ammunition in his recruiting efforts. It isn't hard to see why a man who had spent his entire adult life in counterterrorism finally had to leave government and speak out.
Against All Enemies is a great book, with behind-the-scenes descriptions, the history of counterterrorism in the U.S., and a warning for the future. Who would have thought that a career bureaucrat would be such a good writer?
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