From the issue dated September 28, 2001
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Steps to a Safer WorldBy MICHAEL LEDEEN
(1) Undo Executive Order 11905. It has meant, practically speaking, that you couldn't recruit terrorists as intelligence assets. (2) Take off the restrictions on the Iraqi National Congress. If we're going to go after Saddam Hussein, it has to happen inside Iraq, right? In for a dime, in for a dollar. So if we're going to support them, then we should support the full campaign against what we know to be a terrorist state. And if we're not going to do that, then we shouldn't support them at all, because supporting them in a half-assed way gives us the worst of both worlds. (3) Fire the people who have failed. People must be held accountable. The director of Central Intelligence. If there were a head of the FBI who had been there for more than a few days, we could fire him too, but he's gone. So we can fire the head of FBI counterintelligence, the head of FBI counterterrorism, the head of CIA counterterrorism, and the head of CIA counterintelligence. I mean, they've all failed. And the head of the FAA, who's a Clinton appointee who had earlier been director of Logan Airport, in Boston, which gives you some idea of how magnificently she has failed over the years. These people have to be held accountable, and they have to be removed. They should have resigned. Anybody with a sense of honor would have resigned by now. (4) Move the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, because terrorists are trying to drive a wedge between us and the only free country in the Middle East, and we have to make it crystal clear to them that we're not going to be intimidated, that we support free countries, and that our fight is with tyrannies and despots. It is the most dramatic, easily available thumb in the eye of the anti-Semites and the anti-Americans who have been killing us. They draw no distinction between the United States and Israel. We're all part of one great satanic whole. We have to show them that they're going to lose. All these attacks do is strengthen our resolve, and instead of advancing their cause, they're going to make things even worse. Michael Ledeen is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. http://chronicle.com Section: The Chronicle Review Page: B13
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Copyright © 2001 by The Chronicle of Higher Education
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