Matt Margolis Interviews Shadow War Author

At Blogs For Bush, Matt Margolis has posted a must read interview with Richard Miniter, author of the new book Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush Is Winning the War on Terror, and the New York Times bestseller Losing Bin Laden.

You should really read the interview. When Margolis asked Miniter if President Bush winning the war on terror, Miniter's answer includes this:

America is winning the war on terror.

Here's the key statistic: More 3,000 al Qaeda fighters have been seized or slain since 9-11 in 102 different countries. That shows that the effort is larger than the public has been told--3,000 may be equal to one-quarter of al Qaeda's total strength--and far more global than the public believes. If you destroy a division of the enemy and it does not score a comparable victory against you, you are winning. That is the position of the U.S. today.

The war is more than Iraq and Afghanistan: In all but a handful of those 102 cases, those captures and kills have occurred with the help of local governments. Forget the 30 allies we have on the ground in Iraq, we have almost 100 allies in the war on terror--including virtually every Muslim-majority country in the world.

I learned this firsthand by reporting in the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Egypt, Sudan, Iraq, Israel and beyond. A senior official in Singapore's ISD, its version of the CIA, told me that the city-state shares and receives information through the intelligence alliance that the Bush Administration has forged with more than 90 nations. Just that morning, he said, he received useful intelligence from Norway and Malaysia.

The key difference between the candidates on the war comes down to the nature of the threat. Kerry seems to see the war as limited to Afghanistan and Iraq--despite the intelligence briefings he has received. And he has surrounded himself with Clinton NSC officials who saw terrorism as primarily a law enforcement problem.

Don't just take my word for it, at The view from My right, Brian calls the interview excellent.

At MuD & PHuD, Tom posts that the interview is "a good discussion about how we are winning the War on Terror."

At a_sdf, Curtis call the interview highly informative.

At Attaboy, Joe posts that the interview erases any doubt one might have about President Bush.

The Patriette posts that the interview is worth reading in its entirety.

at Memento Moron, Brian posts that the interview is good food for thought if you care about the War on Terrorism.

Go read the interview.

You can download a free chapter from Shadow War courtesy of Human Events Online here.

Thanks to Matt for interviewing Miniter and posting it.

Other Blogs covering the Margolis Miniter interview:
Incite, and The Untergeek.

Comments

[Brian B]

Dude, thanks for the link. And keep up the good work -- we'll remove the word "Left" from the name of our coast if it's the last thing we do.