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GREAT-GREAT-GRAND-SON OF: NYT --Non-biassed and brilliant

Richard A. Clarke [said of Kerry] ...'He was getting it at the same time that people like Tony Lake were getting it, in the '93 -'94 time frame,'' [Anthony Lake, Clinton's national security adviser] ''And the 'it' here was that there was a new nonstate-actor threat, ... a blended threat that didn't fit neatly into the box of organized criminal, or neatly into the box of terrorism. What you found were groups that were all of the above.'' [p7]

Which is why the Clinton administration did so well in responding to insert laundry list of terrorist attacks and the bi-annual declarations of war against the US by OBL.

Kerry came to believe, however, that Americans were in greater danger from the more shadowy groups he had been investigating -- nonstate actors, armed with cellphones and laptops -- who might detonate suitcase bombs or release lethal chemicals into the subway just to make a point. They lived in remote regions and exploited weak governments. Their goal wasn't to govern states but to destabilize them.

And he said/did . . . . . . *crickets*

''The war on terror is not a clash of civilizations,'' he said [in a speech he gave at U.C.L.A. last February.]. ''It is a clash of civilization against chaos, of the best hopes of humanity against dogmatic fears of progress and the future.''

Holy Crap!! He does geddit. Well, that once his speechwriter got it. Fleetingly. I still don't see an effective cunning plan strategy to combat what he described. . NB I'm gonna break this up into several pieces so as not to go on and on and on to make it less egregious. The original piece is Kerry's Undeclared War from the NYT Magazine. [login: biasedashell PW: dncshill]

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