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...what was on the senator’s mind before September 2001? As a member of the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations (which he chaired in the 1990s), Kerry lead investigations that exposed and shut down international financial networks that gave a lifeline to terrorists. In 1988, Senator Kerry authored and passed legislation that forced foreign governments to crack down on these networks or lose access to U.S. markets. In his 1997 book, “The New War,”Kerry argued that international terrorist and criminal networks were the greatest emerging threat...
While Kerry displayed prescient insight into the terrorist threat years ago, Bush is stuck in a pre-9/11 mentality that was unwise then and is shockingly obtuse in the wake of the terrorist attacks. What emerges from the president’s record on security is a persistent attention gap: time and again, on issues that should be no-brainers after September 11, the administration dropped the ball...
...enough that, in February 2001, the White House ignored the Hart-Rudman commission’s recommendation to create a “National Homeland Security Agency” to defend against international terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. But the President’s initial opposition to the Department of Homeland Security after 9/11 was simply unfathomable. On October 24, 2001, Ari Fleisher said the president believed “there does not need to be a Cabinet-level Office of Homeland Security,” and Bush only flip-flopped on this issue when forced to by political pressure...
...Russell after being dipped in a tank of Botox) has noble impulses but lousy aim. Chasing Osama bin Laden look-alikes in France and Egypt, the team members inadvertently blow up the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Sphinx and several pyramids. They need a recruit to get inside the terrorist mind, and who better than Gary, a Broadway actor? While Gary infiltrates the insurgents, North Korea's kooky dictator, Kim Jong Il, is making worse mischief. He dupes Alec Baldwin and other leftish members of the Film Actors Guild (FAG, in case you didn't notice) into being co-hosts...
...their own expense, detailing things puppets can't do (shoot pool, dance, plausibly engage in martial arts). The real kick, however, is in the grandeur and detail of the production design, by Jim Dultz and David Rockwell. Paris, Cairo, the Panama Canal, the inside of Mount Rushmore and a terrorist hideout (modeled on the Star Wars cantina) look fabulous redreamed in miniature...