Third Superpower

bq. The key thing, though, is this: Both sets of traits tell me he’s too shrewd to write or say anything in public that might be decisively refuted. As Daniel Benjamin, another terrorism specialist who worked alongside Clarke in the Clinton White House, put it in a phone conversation today, “Dick did not survive and [...]

1998 bq. Last May, President Clinton appointed a little-known but very senior adviser, Richard Clarke, to oversee the administration

Dave, Jeffrey, and Scott are all intelligent, well-informed individuals. But they each seem to have a mental block about one issue. bq. The US owes everyone a big mea culpa. We went to war, unprovoked, the first time in our history. Now the simplest way to say we were wrong, if Bush won’t do it, [...]

“April 19th(April 19)”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_19 has traditionally been a bloody day in American History. Now, one has to wonder what terrorists are thinking. September 11th, 2001 – Attack of New York City October 12th, 2002 – “Attack in Bali(Bomb Blast, Kuta Bali)”:http://nickburgoyne.com/BaliHorror/ – one year, month and day after the above date (and two years after the [...]

bq. That said, they are really misleading all of America, Tom, in a profound way. The war on terror is less — it is occasionally military, and it will be, and it will continue to be for a long time. And we will need the best-trained and the most well-equipped and the most capable military, [...]

bq. If U.S. intelligence is broken, it’s clear that the Bush White House broke it. – “Scott Rosenberg(The art of finger-pointing)”:http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/2004/02/02.html#a540 bq. The CIA’s scientific pretensions were established early on by Sherman Kent. In his 1949 book, “Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy,” Kent argued that the truth is to be approached through a systematic [...]

bq. I know that some people question if America is really in a war at all. They view terrorism more as a crime, a problem to be solved mainly with law enforcement and indictments. – “George Bush(Patriot Act Expiration)”:http://www.thirdsuperpower.com/previously/2004/01/21/07/20/ I disagreed with most of what Scott Rosenberg wrote here. But it is this sentence that [...]

bq. From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go.- “Paul O’Neill(Bush Sought ‘Way’ To Invade Iraq, Says Secretary Paul O’Neill)”:http://tinyurl.com/2euce I wonder who agreed with George Bush on that. Could it have been… Al Gore? bq. MR. LEHRER: People watching here tonight [...]

bq. The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do. – “Samuel P. Huntington(Organized Violence)”:http://greatchange.org/ov-american_conservative_declaration,possession_of_might.html bq. In a word, in order to [...]

During the Clinton Administration, there was at least one person championing the War on Terror. bq. I watched the memorial service for those who died on the USS Cole, and my heart went out to the families left behind, the hopes and dreams forever dashed, the faith tested, the yearning for the lost loved ones. [...]