AMERICA'S BEST COUNTERTERROR FORCE:  THE NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT AS AN OUTSTANDING COUNTERTERRORIST AGENCY -- THE NYPD AS AN AGENCY WHICH NAMES THE ENEMY, ACKNOWLEDGES THE PREDOMINANT THREAT OF ISLAMIST VIOLENCE, & BUILT A ROBUST INTELLIGENCE OPERATION -- THE TERRORIST INTERDICTION UNIT -- THE SPECIAL SERVICES UNIT -- THE DEMOGRAPHICS UNIT -- NYPD TACTICS THAT HAVE PROTECTED NEW YORK FROM THIRTEEN FAILED OR THWARTED TERRORIST PLOTS -- TACTICS ENJOYING WIDE POLITICAL SUPPORT

THE EFFECTS OF WORLD WAR IV ON THE AMERICAN NATION:  A NEW KIND OF ENEMY & MAJOR CHANGES IN U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY -- RESTRUCTURING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO ENABLE IT TO EFFECTIVELY COPE WITH THE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- THE U.S.A. WITH NEW COALITIONS & NEW PARTNERS IN THE ARENA OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- U.S. MILITARY FORCES EVOLVING TO DEAL WITH THE CHANGED GEOPOLITICAL SITUATION IN THE WORLD AT LARGE -- THE 9/11 ATTACKS, TRANFORMATION OF THE U.S.A., & THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY

A U.S. WHITE HOUSE POLICY PAPER ON METHODS TO PREVENT TERRORISM:  PRESIDENT OBAMA'S COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE & DANGEROUS APPROACH TO COUNTERTERRORISM -- A FIRM STAND ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THREE DISTINCT COUNTERTERRORISM DEBATES -- THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM -- HOW TO IDENTIFY THE ENEMY -- THE APPROPRIATE RESPONSE TO THE PROBLEM -- THE ENSHRINING OF A FRINGE STUDY AS U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY -- WHAT MUST BE DONE BY AMERICANS WHO FAVOR A GENUINELY EFFECTIVE COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY:  UNITE IN A CONCERTED ENDEAVOR TO REMOVE LEFTISTS & MULTICULTURISTS FROM THE OFFICES OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

THE HISTORY & CULTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD, THE MUSLIM RELIGION, THE ISLAMIST POLITICAL IDEOLOGY, & THE ISLAMIC CONCEPTION OF THE JIHAD:  THE JIHAD PLACED IN CONTEXT -- THE PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE OF THE KILLING OF OSAMA BIN LADEN:  BIN LADEN'S DEATH, WHILE INTRINSICALLY GOOD, HAS NO INSTRUMENTAL VALUE AGAINST THE JIHAD, A PHENOMENON THAT "TRANSCENDS TIME" & IS "GREATER THAN ANY INDIVIDUAL." THE GLOBAL JIHAD WAGED BY THE ISLAMISTS AGAINST AMERICA & WESTERN CIVILIZATION WILL CONTINUE UNDER HIGHLY EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP, DOING SO UNTIL EITHER WE IN THE WEST DESTROY ISLAMISM & ITS SUPPORTERS OR OUR JIHADIST ENEMIES DESTROY US. THERE CAN BE NO "PEACE IN OUR TIME," ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH APPEASEMENT & ACCOMODATION ON OUR PART. THE CURRENT GLOBAL CONFLICT IS A SITUATION OF KILL OR BE KILLED.

ISLAM, ISLAMISM, & JIHADISM:  THE ISLAMIC CENTRAL CONCEPT OF JIHAD -- THE QUR'AN AS A BATTLE PLAN FOR THE CONQUEST OF THE WORLD BY ISLAM -- JIHAD AS A SACRED DUTY FOR ALL MUSLIMS -- ISLAM AS ONE BIG HATE CRIME DIRECTED AT ALL OTHER RELIGIOUS FAITHS -- WHY "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS" REGARDING HOW WE DEAL WITH MUSLIM DEMANDS IN THE U.S.A. IS A SERIOUS DANGER TO THE AMERICAN NATION & THE REMAINDER OF THE NON-MUSLIM WORLD -- THE GREATEST ALLIES OF OUR ENEMIES IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS:  THOSE WHO RECOMMEND THAT WE PURSUE A FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY CHARACTERIZED BY ISOLATIONISM & PASSIVITY, APPEASEMENT & ACCOMODATION, SURRENDER & SUBMISSION, & NEGLECT OF OUR DEFENSE FORCES & MILITARY PREPAREDNESS

THE DOMESTIC & INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE EVOLVING ISLAMIST THREAT TO AMERICA:  THE INTERNAL THREAT:  RADICALIZATION OF AMERICAN MUSLIMS, CREATING A VERY POTENT ISLAMIST FIFTH COLUMN INSIDE THE BORDERS OF THE U.S.A., ONE THAT POSES A SERIOUS & GROWING THREAT TO U.S. INTERNAL SECURITY -- A PROBLEM ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT:  COUNTERING ISLAMIST JIHADISM BY ENDEAVORING TO SPREAD WESTERN VALUES & WAYS OF GOVERNANCE IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD DOOMED TO FAILURE -- NEEDED:  AMERICA RETHINKING ITS STRATEGY FOR THE WAR ON ISLAMIST TERRORISM, BOTH AT HOME & ABROAD

IN ORDER TO SUCCESSFULLY DEFEND OURSELVES AGAINST & DESTROY THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT THAT IS WAGING A GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION & OTHER NON-MUSLIM CULTURES, WE MUST ELIMINATE THE ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY WHICH CREATES ISLAMIST JIHADI IN THE FIRST PLACE.  VICTORY OF AMERICA & THE WEST IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR REQUIRES ERADICATION OF THE IDEOLOGY OF ISLAMISM, THE ROOT CAUSE OF OUR DIFFICULTIES WITH THE ISLAMIC WORLD.

ISLAMIST TERRORISM & TRANSPORTATION SAFETY ON INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES: AIRLINES SECURITY PROCEDURES & THEIR IMPACT ON HOMELAND SECURITY IN THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES -- ANXIETY IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE TRAGEDY THAT NEARLY OCCURRED ON NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 253 AS IT WAS APPROACHING THE DETROIT-METROPOLITAN WAYNE COUNTY AIRPORT ON DECEMBER 25, 2009

THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY & U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY:  THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S INEPT POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST & THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- A POLICY BASED ON FAULTY ANALYSIS & ILLOGICAL ARGUMENTATION -- A POLICY THAT CALLS FOR APPEASING & LEGITIMIZING ISLAMIST TERRORISTS & REJECTS ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN VIOLENT EXTREMISM & ISLAM -- THE EXTREME DANGER THAT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE POLICY WILL SPELL FOR AMERICANS, AMERICAN INTERESTS, & AMERICAN ALLIES -- THE UTTER DISASTER THAT AWAITS US

RELIGION, IDEOLOGY, U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY, & THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD: ISLAM AS THE ANIMATING FORCE BEHIND ISLAMIST TERRORISM -- INABILITY TO UNCOVER ANY INSTANCE WHERE ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY DEVIATES FROM ISLAMIC SCRIPTURE -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POLITICAL CORRECTNESS & THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S WILLFULLY BLIND ATTITUDE TOWARD ISLAMIC TERRORISM -- TERRORISM AS FUNDAMENTALLY A POLITICAL ISSUE OF NATIONAL SELF-DEFENSE, RATHER THAN A LEGAL ISSUE OF ENFORCING CRIMINAL LAW -- THE ONLY SENSIBLE COUNTERTERRORISM STRATEGY:  A HOLISTIC, COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY THAT BRINGS TO BEAR ALL OF THE TOOLS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING THE COURTS, THE MILITARY, THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES, & THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY -- ALL FUTURE U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY BASED ON RECOGNITION OF THE CENTRAL ROLE THAT ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY PLAYS IN TERRORISM

AMERICA'S DECAYING CULTURE & THE LIBERAL LEFTIST SOCIAL & POLITICAL FORCES THAT HAVE CREATED THE PROBLEM:  LIBERALISM & THE SORRY STATE OF AMERICAN CHILD-REARING, EDUCATIONAL, & POLITICAL SYSTEMS -- A CADRE OF LIBERAL SOCIAL ARCHITECTS & "FAMILY SERVICES EXPERTS" THAT HAS RENDERED AMERICAN PARENTS IMPOTENT TO DEAL EFFECTIVELY WITH BADLY BEHAVING CHILDREN & YOUTH -- SCHOOLS THAT TURN OUT FERAL, UNDISCIPLINED, ARROGANT, VULGAR, BARELY LITERATE, & POLITICALLY INDOCTRINATED GRADUATES & DROP-OUTS WHO ARE SERIOUSLY DILUTING THE QUALITY & WISDOM OF THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE -- AN ELECTORAL SYSTEM IN WHICH BOTH MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES & THEIR RESPECTIVE LEADERSHIP ELITES INTEND AN AGENDA WILL NOT PROVIDE ANY REAL SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF THE NATION'S DECAYING CULTURE, BUT WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE THE POWER & ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN THE LIFE OF THE INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN, WHILE STIFLING HIS ABILITY TO SEEK RECOURSE -- LIBERAL LEFTIST DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERS SEEKING TO DISMANTLE THE NATION'S ABILITY TO FORCEFULLY CONFRONT OUR ISLAMIST ENEMIES, SUBORDINATING AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY TO ACHIEVING MOMENTARY POLITICAL GAINS FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

INTERNET CYBER-WARFARE WITH AL-QA'IDA:  TERRORISM, COUNTERTERRORISM, CYBER COUNTERTERRORISM, & CYBER-COUNTERINTELLIGENCE -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S. & OTHER WESTERN GOVERNMENTS TO DEVELOP A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE WAYS AL-QA'IDA & ITS AFFILIATES USE THE INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY TO WAGE THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST JIHAD AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- THE NEED FOR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES TO BE ALLOWED & ENCOURAGED TO INCORPORATE CREATIVE STRATEGIES ENABLING THEM TO ANTICIPATE WHERE THE TERRORISTS MIGHT NEXT CARVE THEIR PATH ON THE INTERNET

THE ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY:  ELIMINATE IDEOLOGUES, ISOLATE THEM, OR MARGINALIZE THEM TO THE POINT OF IMPOTENCE -- RAISE THE COST OF TERRORISM BEYOND THE ENDURANCE OF TERRORISTS -- EMPLOY FORCEFUL & DISRUPTIVE MEASURES AGAINST TERRORISTS, TERRORIST GROUPS, & STATES THAT SPONSOR & SUPPORT TERRORISM -- CREATE & MAINTAIN AN EXCEEDINGLY HOSTILE & DESTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR TERRORISM & ITS SUPPORTERS

U.S. INTELLIGENCE & COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITY DURING TIME OF WAR: THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS SURVEILLANCE, & AMERICAN HOMELAND SECURITY -- GOVERNMENT INTERCEPTION & MONITORING OF TERRORISTS' & SUSPECTED TERRORISTS' TELEPHONE MESSAGES: ESSENTIAL TO DEFENDING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AGAINST ITS JIHADIST ENEMIES, PREVENTING FURTHER TERRORIST ATTACKS INSIDE THE U.S.A., & SAVING THE LIVES OF NUMEROUS AMERICANS

LEFTWING RADICALISM & ISLAMIST JIHADISM:  THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE BETWEEN RADICAL ISLAM & THE AMERICAN FAR LEFT -- THE GROWING CONFLUENCE BETWEEN MILITANT ISLAM ON ONE HAND & NON-MUSLIM LEFTIST RADICALS ON THE OTHER -- THE NEED TO COUNTER NOT ONLY TERRORISM, BUT ALSO THE IDEOLOGY OF ISLAMISM

PARTISAN POLITICS, LEFTIST POLITICAL IDEOLOGY, & THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S INTELLIGENCE GATHERING & SURVEILLANCE FUNCTION DURING TIME OF WAR: POLITICAL CONTROVERSY OVER THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY'S MONITORING TELEPHONE & OTHER ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS OF KNOWN OR SUSPECTED ISLAMIST TERRORISTS -- THE ROAD TO PERDITION & NATIONAL SUICIDE:  CRTICIZING & OBSTRUCTING EVERY EFFORT THE GOVERNMENT TAKES TO PROTECT US FROM OUR ISLAMIST ENEMIES, INSISTING THAT FOREIGN TERRORISTS HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS AMERICAN CITIZENS, DEFAMING THE U.S. ARMED FORCES, & DEPICTING THOSE IN OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT & INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES AS ENEMIES TO BE FEARED

TWO CURRENT POLITICAL CONTROVERSIES RELATING TO AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY & HOMELAND DEFENSE:   CONGRESSIONAL REAUTHORZATION OF THE USA PATRIOT ACT & THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT'S INTERCEPTION & SURVEILLANCE OF INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIONS OF INDIVIDUALS WITH KNOWN LINKS TO AL-QA'IDA & OTHER ISLAMIST TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS WAGING THE JIHAD, OR TERROR WAR, AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA & ITS ALLIES

THE THREAT OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM & THE U.S. RESPONSE TO THE THREAT:  SUCCESSES & FAILURES OF AMERICA'S INTELLIGENCE & LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES -- TIME TO REVIEW THE SUCCESSES & FAILURES & TO EXAMINE THE LESSONS WE HAVE LEARNED, OR SHOULD HAVE LEARNED, FROM THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, ISLAMIST TERRORIST ATTACKS ON THE U.S.A.

THE CONSEQUENCES OF GROSS INCOMPETENCE, PARTISAN POLITICS, ACTIVIST POLITICAL IDEOLOGUES, & SECURITY LAPSES IN THE U.S. NATIONAL GOVERNMENT DURING THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION:  AMERICAN LIVES LOST & AMERICA'S NATIONAL INTERESTS & SECURITY SERIOUSLY COMPROMISED -- WHAT NASA OFFICIALS & 9-11 COMMISSION MEMBERS ARE TRYING TO COVER UP

RADICAL ISLAM & JIHADISM:  THE ISLAMIST INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST MOVEMENT & THE JIHAD IT IS WAGING AGAINST THE WEST IN GENERAL & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN PARTICULAR -- THE ORIGINS OF THE MOVEMENT, THE NATURE & EFFECTNESS OF ITS METHODS, ITS PERCEPTION OF THE U.S.A. AS THE STRATEGIC ENEMY, & WHY AMERICA & ITS ALLIES MUST REMAIN RESOLUTE & PERSISTENT IN WAGING AN EFFECTIVE COUNTERTERRORIST WAR AGAINST THE JIHADISTS

SANDY BERGER, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR TO FORMER PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON -- UNDER CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION FOR PILFERING OR IMPROPERLY HANDLING CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT TO THE 9/11 COMMISSION HEARINGS:  INVESTIGATION OF A POSSIBLE ATTEMPT TO COVER UP THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION'S NATIONAL SECURITY LAPSES, MANY OF WHICH LEFT THE U.S.A. VULNERABLE TO TERRORIST ATTACK

THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION & ITS ROLE IN PROTECTING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FROM TERRORIST ATTACKS:  CONTINUING ENHANCEMENT OF THE FBI'S INTELLIGENCE & COUNTERTERRORISM CAPABILITIES IN ORDER TO ENSURE THE AGENCY'S ABILITY TO FULFILL ITS CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE & COUNTERTERRORIST RESPONSIBILITIES

INTELLIGENCE, COUNTERTERRORISM, & THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION: BOOSTING THE FBI'S EFFECTIVENESS IN PERFORMING ITS INTELLIGENCE & COUNTERTERRORIST FUNCTIONS IN THE WAR AGAINST INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

MAJOR DEFECTS IN THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE & COUNTERTERRORISM SYSTEM PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 11, 2001:   ABSENCE OF A COVERT ACTION PROGRAM TO KILL OSAMA BIN LADEN, THE WALL SEPARATING CRIMINAL INVESTIGATORS FROM INTELLIGENCE AGENTS, LACK OF SUPPORT FOR STATE-OF-THE-ART INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE FOR USE BY THE FBI, & FAILURE TO FULLY IMPLEMENT A PLAN TO DISRUPT THE AL-QA'IDA NETWORK IN THE U.S.A.

THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION ANALYSIS, THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY, & U.S. COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY -- FOCUS ON DEFEATING THE ISLAMIC TERRORISTS BEFORE THEY CAN STRIKE

THE SOURCES OF WEAKNESS IN THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY'S COUNTERTERRORIST SUPPORT ACTIVITY PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 11, 2001:  LEGAL OBSTACLES TO INTERAGENCY COOPERATION & A SIGNIFICANT DECLINE IN THE FUNDING & OTHER RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR HUMAN & TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE WORK -- LEGAL BARRIERS & INADEQUATE PROVISION OF RESOURCES NEEDED FOR EFFECTIVE INFORMATION COLLECTION & ANALYSIS

THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY, LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, & U.S. COUNTERTERRORIST ACTIVITY:  THE ROLE OF THE TERRORIST THREAT INTEGRATION CENTER IN SUPPORTING, REINFORCING, & ENHANCING U.S. INTELLIGENCE & LAW ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS TO PREVENT TERRORIST ATTACKS AGAINST U.S. INTERESTS AT HOME & ABROAD

THE CIA DIRECTORATE OF OPERATIONS:  THE ROLE OF AMERICA'S CLANDESTINE SERVICE IN IMPLEMENTING U.S. COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY -- THE DIRECTORATE'S COUNTERTERRORIST EFFORTS BEFORE & SINCE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

INTELLIGENCE, COUNTERTERRORISM, & U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY -- THE ROLE OF THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM:  THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY & U.S. COUNTERTERRORISM EFFORTS PRIOR TO THE TERRORIST ATTACKS UPON THE U.S.A. ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

THE ROLE OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY IN UNITED STATES COUNTERTERRORISM & NATIONAL-SECURITY POLICY PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 11, 2001:  USE OF THE CIA IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S PRE-9/11 EFFORTS TO DISRUPT AL-QA'IDA & CAPTURE OR KILL OSAMA BIN LADEN & HIS LIEUTENANTS

THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY'S DIRECTORATE OF OPERATIONS -- AMERICA'S CLANDESTINE INTELLIGENCE SERVICE & THE VITAL ROLE IT PLAYS IN U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY, MILITARY DEFENSE, & PROSECUTION OF THE GLOBAL WAR AGAINST ISLAMIC TERRORISM

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