Instead of reducing terrorism, the war generated more terrorism.

Richard Clarke's Against All Enemies is one very scary book.Unlike most people who have an opinion on it, I've read the book.

It is understandable that the administration has become hystericalin its attacks on Clarke. If his account is accurate, then thepresident is a man of limited talents, capable of absorbing onlysimple proposals and surrounded by advisers from Cloud Cuckooland.Yet for all the viciousness of the assault, no one has explained whya registered Republican civil servant who has served in fiveadministrations, three of them Republican, would write such a bookunless he was genuinely worried about the state of the country. Asfor it being a partisan political …