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Mitt Romney Gets The Love, Ron Paul (And Newt Gingrich) Should, Too February 9, 2012, 5:53 am CST I appeared as a guest on RT America yesterday (full clip below) to discuss ongoing media bias of the 2012 GOP election coverage -- and by media bias, I don't merely mean a reporter occasionally slipping up and revealing his or her favored ... |
Mitt Romney Gets The Love, Ron Paul (And Newt Gingrich) Should, Too February 9, 2012, 2:53 am CST I appeared as a guest on RT America yesterday (full clip below) to discuss ongoing media bias of the 2012 GOP election coverage -- and by media bias, I don't merely mean a reporter occasionally slipping up and revealing his or her favored ... |
Mitt Romney Gets The Love, Ron Paul (And Newt Gingrich) Should, Too February 9, 2012, 1:38 am CST I appeared as a guest on RT America yesterday (full clip below) to discuss ongoing media bias of the 2012 GOP election coverage -- and by media bias, I don't merely mean a reporter occasionally slipping up and revealing his or her favored ... |
Komen flap reveals liberal media bias, encroaches on rights, columnists say February 6, 2012, 8:03 am CST The mainstream media is drawing criticism from its own for what's seen as a pro-choice bias in the reporting of the ongoing... |
Komen flap reveals liberal media bias, encroaches on rights, columnists say February 6, 2012, 7:49 am CST The mainstream media is drawing criticism from its own for what's seen as a pro-choice bias in the reporting of the ongoing... |
Liberal media bias can't be denied February 6, 2012, 6:13 am CST Re "Liberal media image doesn't reflect what is being reported," (Viewpoints, Feb. 4) |
Insiders: Pentagon's Budget Cuts Are Pragmatic for Changing Times February 6, 2012, 7:30 am CST Three-quarters of National Journal’s National Security Insiders said the Obama administration’s plan to cut the Pentagon budget was a smart decision driven by the end of the Iraq war and the nation’s current fiscal crisis, ... |
Grasping a new reality February 4, 2012, 11:33 pm CST WASHINGTON — First, they had to get the handshake right. Two decades earlier in Geneva, Chinese Premier Zhou En-lai had been mortally offended when U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spurned his offered hand. As TV cameras flashed ... |
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Posted by: archiveguard on Aug 17, 2005 - 10:17 PM
As presently configured, the national security institutions of the U.S.
government are still the institutions constructed to win the Cold War. The
United States confronts a very different world today. Instead of facing a few
very dangerous adversaries, the United States confronts a number of less visible
challenges that surpass the boundaries of traditional nation-states and call for
quick, imaginative, and agile responses. HOW TO DO IT? A DIFFERENT WAY OF ORGANIZING THE GOVERNMENT
The men and women of the World War II generation rose to the challenges of
the 1940s and 1950s. They restructured the government so that it could protect
the country. That is now the job of the generation that experienced 9/11. Those
attacks showed, emphatically, that ways of doing business rooted in a different
era are just not good enough. Americans should not settle for incremental, ad
hoc adjustments to a system designed generations ago for a world that no longer
exists.
We recommend significant changes in the organization of the government. We
know that the quality of the people is more important than the quality of the
wiring diagrams. Some of the saddest aspects of the 9/11 story are the
outstanding efforts of so many individual officials straining, often without
success, against the boundaries of the possible. Good people can overcome bad
structures. They should not have to.
The United States has the resources and the people. The government should
combine them more effectively, achieving unity of effort. We offer five major
recommendations to do that:
- unifying strategic intelligence and operational planning against Islamist
terrorists across the foreign-domestic divide with a National
Counterterrorism Center;
- unifying the intelligence community with a new National Intelligence
Director;
- unifying the many participants in the counterterrorism effort and their
knowledge in a network-based information-sharing system that transcends
traditional governmental boundaries;
- unifying and strengthening congressional oversight to improve quality and
accountability; and
- strengthening the FBI and homeland defenders.
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