Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror
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“The [Bush] administration has squandered the opportunity to eliminate al Qaeda….A new al Qaeda has emerged and is growing stronger, in part because of our own actions and inactions. It is in many ways a tougher opponent than the original threat we faced before September 11, and we are not doing what is necessary to make America safe from that threat.”
No one has more power to make that aver than Richard Clarke, the ex- counterterrorism czar for both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The one person who knows more about Usama bin Laden and al Qaeda than anyone else in this country, he has devoted two decades of his professional life to struggle terrorism. Richard Clarke served seven presidents and worked inside the White House for George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush until he resigned in March 2003. He knows, better than anyone, the hidden successes and failures of the Clinton years. He knows, better than anyone, why we failed to prevent 9/11. He knows, better than anyone, how President Bush reacted to the attack and what happened behind the scenes in the days that followed. He knows whether or not Iraq open a terrorist threat to the United States and whether there were hidden costs to the invasion of that country.
Most disturbing of all are Clarke’s revelations about the Bush administration’s lack of interest in al Qaeda prior to September 11. From the moment the Bush team took office and chose to retain Clarke in his post as the counterterrorism czar, Clarke tried to persuade them to take al Qaeda as seriously as had Bill Clinton. For months, he was denied the opportunity even to make his case to Bush. He encountered key officials who gave the impression that they had never heard of al Qaeda; who all ears relentlessly on Iraq; who even advocated long-discredited conspiracy theories about Saddam’s involvement in previous attacks on the United States.
Clarke was the nation’s crisis manager on 9/11, running the Situation Room — a scene described here for the first time — and then watched in shock at what followed. After ignoring existing plans to attack al Qaeda when he first took office, George Bush made disastrous decisions when he finally did pay attention. Coming from a man known as one of the hard-liners against terrorists, Against All Enemies is both a powerful history of our two-decades-long confrontation with terrorism and a searing indictment of the current administration.Amazon.com Review
Few political life tale 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 open, his urgent requests to go 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 facts such as Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Dick Cheney turned their attention nearly 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 nonstop 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 nearly 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
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Richard Clarke is a howling fool pointing fingers because he isn’t man enough to stand up to the criticism of his own inactions. In his testimony to the commission investigating the September 11 attacks, it’s clear that Clarke was no more convincing to the Clinton and Bush administrations as he is now during his “I-told-you-so” interviews with the likes of Lesley Stahl on “60 Minutes.” As for Stahl, radio host Don Imus place it succinctly when he called her a “gutless, lying weasel” and “one of the more dishonest members of the media” for essentially giving Clarke a free book promotion in front of 16 million viewers. As for Clarke, this book comes at an opportune time for a name looking for a job in the would-be Kerry Administration.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
All you have to do is follow the money. The promotion for this piece of fiction started with an informercial on 60 minutes where Simon and Schuster and CBS collaborated to generate revenues for the parent company Viacom while masquerading as reporting the news.
Next we find out that Clarke contradicts himself 180 degrees as he stated the Clinton Administration did NOTHING form 1998 to December 2000 on Terrorism. He also stated in press briefings and memos to Chris Shays that it was “impossible” to have a comprehensive plot to fight terrorism.
Gary Aldrich was viciously attacked by partisans in the Clinton Administration for his work – “Unlimited Access.” He had no informercial to launch it and the soft venues of the media (Larry King Live et. al.) cancelled his appearances after being bullied by Democrat operatives. He was on the right side by history as the things he warned about came to fruition.
Clarke is a cras opportunist, a bureaucrat, and an active political operative against Bush. This book is the account of his own musings and imagination but certainly not an past account.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I really dislike this George W Bush guy and can’t wait until it’s time to vote him out of office. This book stinks and if you like it you are probably an evil person. Lets unite, not devide America !
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Unless you are interested in pure unadulterated fiction written by a self-aggrandizing liar, don’t waste your money on this book. Mr. Clarke has shown he is incapable of telling the truth and hopes to make a huge profit by fabricating tales. The leader spent 8 years in the Clinton White House and did nothing and when he didn’t get the promotion he knew he deserved, he turns around and attacks the Bush administration that has from day one done more to fight terrorism than Bill Clinton ever did. Despite what his willing accomplices in the press (Viacom, CBS’s parent company, profits from this book) are trying to promote, this book isn’t worth the paper it is printed on.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Reading the reviews of this book, I find it very insightful how many persons choose to snub the right facts in favor of revisionist history writers such as Clarke, merely to cling to the desperate hope that their increasingly unpopular ideals and idealogues will once again be voted into power, either not knowing or not caring that their prior failures provide empirical evidence that they would bring this country’s survival into immediate peril.
We know Saddam HAD WMDs, there’s no question of that. If you do question that, just do a Google search and find out you’re incorrect. The real question is what happened to them. Where did they go? Who’s holding onto them? Agreed Saddam’s choices of friends, it can’t be excellent for us, or for anyone else who doesn’t thirst for the deaths of innocent men, women, and children.
Mr. Clarke testified under oath in the 9-11 Commission hearings that he did not feel there was anything that either President Bush or ex- President Clinton could have done to prevent 9-11. Period. Should be “end of tale” but persons blinded by despise will plug their ears and shout “I’m not listening!”
Have there been any more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since 9-11 under the Bush watch? NO. Have we rounded up and killed a substantial amount of al Quaida terrorists? Yes. Have there been al Quaida terrorists killed in Iraq? Yes. Did Clinton do anything to hinder al Quaida by bombing an aspirin factory on advice from Clarke himself? No. Come on people, get real!
Everyone’s been shouting about how Bush is a cowboy and a warmonger, now the same people are shouting he’s soft?! This is crazy. Get real.
This guy Clarke is so full of holes, inconsistencies, and contradictions I seriously doubt if anyone who isn’t blinded by hatred for President Bush could, after examining the facts, find “Against All Enemies” anything but an entertaining alternative to reality.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5