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what's motivating Clarke?
Brad DeLong has been reading Clarke's book, and says:
- If there is one thing clear from reading Against All Enemies, it is that Clarke is f***ing apeshit. I've never seen anyone so apeshit. Clarke had thought he was leading a successful counterterrorism effort against al Qaeda, and then at the start of 2001 these idiot neocon Cold Warriors came in and messed everything up with bureaucratic bull****. Because the Bush administration blocked his plans, September 11, 2001 happens and 3,000 Americans die. And then the White House takes 911 as a poiltical football and runs with it. And then it uses 911 as a phony excuse to launch a war on Iraq that--in Clarke's estimation--greatly strengthens al Qaeda.
And I had thought that Paul O'Neill was mad at and disgusted with the George W. Bush administration...
eta: I don't know whether Clarke claims (or DeLong means to suggest that Clarke claims) that 9/11 would't have happened if he'd been allowed to do what he was proposing. I posted this re Clarke's motivation, not re that possible claim, so let's not let this be the spark that touches that one off again.
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