After the August 7, 1998, Al Qaeda attacks on America’s East African embassies, the “first foreign rescue team to arrive on the scene was from Israel,” recalled National Security Council (NSC) veteran Richard Clarke in his controversial 2004 memoir. In Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror, this former high-ranking NSC official praised […]
Richard Clarke’s Complicated Iraq Calculus (Part Two)
“The lesson of President Jimmy Carter’s abandonment of the Shah of Iran in 1979 should be a warning,” wrote high-ranking National Security Council (NSC) veteran Richard Clarke in 2004 amidst the Iraq war. In his controversial memoir Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror, he thus harshly criticized President George W. Bush’s similar democracy […]
Richard Clarke’s Complicated Iraq Calculus (Part One)
High-ranking National Security Council (NSC) veteran Richard Clarke consistently condemned President George W. Bush’s “unnecessary and costly war in Iraq” in his 2004 memoir Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror. Yet Clarke’s own analysis reveals a much more complex picture of the policy choices involved in this “counterproductive Iraq fiasco” as well […]
Richard Clarke’s Good War in Afghanistan
Experts “who examined the Afghan security issue closely have no doubt that the United States could have brought true stability to Afghanistan with a larger force, could have made the return of the Taliban and the terrorists virtually impossible.” So assured high-ranking National Security Council veteran Richard Clarke in his controversial 2004 book, Against […]
Frenemy Pakistan
“To this day, Usama bin Laden is a popular icon in Pakistan. Mosques and affiliated madrassas schools in Pakistan teach hatred of America and all that is not Islam,” wrote high-ranking National Security Council veteran Richard Clarke in 2004. His memoir Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror provided ample proof of Pakistan’s […]
Saudi Arabia’s House of Jihad
“What might Washington’s attitude be if some country alleged that the Opus Dei religious sect of Roman Catholicism were engaged in terrorism around the world and had to be destroyed, its leaders killed or arrested?” High-ranking National Security Council veteran Richard Clarke raised this intriguing question while analyzing Saudi Arabia’s connections to jihadist terror […]
‘Terrorism Czar’ for Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43: Al Qaeda Has ‘Deviant Variant of Islam’
Al Qaeda has a “deviant variant of Islam,” wrote Richard Clarke, a member of the National Security Council under Presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, in his 2004 book, Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror. This memoir from a high-ranking counterterrorism official about the “jihadist terrorist threat” […]