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-- Vladimir Bukovsky, co-founder of the Soviet dissident movement and author of Judgment in Moscow, and Pavel Stroilov, author of Behind the Desert Storm.
"Diana West is distinguished from almost all political commentators because she seeks less to defend ideas and proposals than to investigate and understand what happens and what has happened. This gives her modest and unpretentious books and articles the status of true scientific inquiry, shifting the debate from the field of liking and disliking to being and non-being."
-- Olavo de Carvalho
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-- Jack Cashill, author of Deconstructing Obama: The Lives, Loves and Letters of America's First Postmodern President and First Strike: TWA Flight 800 and the Attack on America
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-- Henrik Raeder Clausen, Europe News
West's lesson to Americans: Reality can't be redacted, buried, fabricated, falsified, or omitted. Her book is eloquent proof of it.
-- Edward Cline, Family Security Matters
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-- Angelo Codevilla, Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Boston Unversity, and fellow of the Claremont Institute.
Enlightening. I give American Betrayal five stars only because it is not possible to give it six.
-- John Dietrich, formerly of the Defense Intelligence Agency and author of The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Policy.
After reading American Betrayal and much of the vituperation generated by neoconservative "consensus" historians, I conclude that we cannot ignore what West has demonstrated through evidence and cogent argument.
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-- M. Stanton Evans, author of Stalin's Secret Agents and Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies
Her task is ambitious; her sweep of crucial but too-little-known facts of history is impressive; and her arguments are eloquent and witty. ... American Betrayal is one of those books that will change the way many of us see the world.
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-- Newt Gingrich, former House Speaker
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-- John Guandolo, president, Understanding the Threat, former FBI special agent
It is myth, or a series of myths, concerning WW2 that Diana West is aiming to replace with history in 2013’s American Betrayal.
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-- Mark Gullick, British Intelligence
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-- Lars Hedegaard, historian, journalist, founder, Danish Free Press Society
The polemics against your Betrayal have a familiar smell: The masters of the guild get angry when someone less worthy than they are ventures into the orchard in which only they are privileged to harvest. The harvest the outsider brought in, they ritually burn.
-- Hans Jansen, former professor of Islamic Thought, University of Utrecht
No book has ever frightened me as much as American Betrayal. ... [West] patiently builds a story outlining a network of subversion so bizarrely immense that to write it down will seem too fantastic to anyone without the book’s detailed breadth and depth. It all adds up to a story so disturbing that it has changed my attitude to almost everything I think about how the world actually is. ... By the time you put the book down, you have a very different view of America’s war aims and strategies. The core question is, did the USA follow a strategy that served its own best interests, or Stalin’s? And it’s not that it was Stalin’s that is so compelling, since you knew that had to be the answer, but the evidence in detail that West provides that makes this a book you cannot ignore.
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-- Jeffrey Norwitz, former professor of counterterrorism, Naval War College
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Although I know [Christopher] Andrew well, and have met [Oleg] Gordievsky twice, I now doubt their characterization of Hopkins -- also embraced by Radosh and the scholarly community. I now support West's conclusions after rereading KGB: The Inside Story account 23 years later [relevant passages cited in American Betrayal]. It does not ring true that Hopkins was an innocent dupe dedicated solely to defeating the Nazis. Hopkins comes over in history as crafty, secretive and no one's fool, hardly the personality traits of a naïve fellow traveler. And his fingerprints are on the large majority of pro-Soviet policies implemented by the Roosevelt administration. West deserves respect for cutting through the dross that obscures the evidence about Hopkins, and for screaming from the rooftops that the U.S. was the victim of a successful Soviet intelligence operation.
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Diana West’s American Betrayal — a remarkable, novel-like work of sorely needed historical re-analysis — is punctuated by the Cassandra-like quality of “multi-temporal” awareness. ... But West, although passionate and direct, is able to convey her profoundly disturbing, multi-temporal narrative with cool brilliance, conjoining meticulous research, innovative assessment, evocative prose, and wit.
-- Andrew G. Bostom, PJ Media
Do not be dissuaded by the controversy that has erupted around this book which, if you insist on complete accuracy, would be characterized as a disinformation campaign.
-- Jed Babbin, The American Spectator
In American Betrayal, Ms. West's well-established reputation for attacking "sacred cows" remains intact. The resulting beneficiaries are the readers, especially those who can deal with the truth.
-- Wes Vernon, Renew America
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Diana West
Monday, July 19, 2010 9:07 AM
Talk about burying the lede. The last 'graph of the widely anticipated Wash Post takeout on National Intelligence Sprawl says it all, or at least quite a lot:
Soon, on the grounds of the former St. Elizabeths mental hospital in Anacostia, a $3.4 billion showcase of security will rise from the crumbling brick wards. The new headquarters will be the largest government complex built since the Pentagon ....
National security meets St. E's: How tragically appropriate. And yes, the inmates will definitely be running this asylum -- some of the estimated 854,000 Americans with top secret clearance currently and clandestinely spilling out of massive new government complexes all over the country. My conservative brethren seem concerned that the Post report reveals a slew of largely post-9/11 national security secrets. The question is, with nearly a million people possessing Top Secret clearance, how many secrets are there left to reveal? Has our national security apparatus gotten too big not to fail?
The story conveys the sense of intel sprawl with an array of giant figures, beginning with last year's $75 billion budget, two-and-a-half times larger than the budget was on 9/11.The story continues:
At least 20 percent of the government organizations that exist to fend off terrorist threats were established or refashioned in the wake of 9/11. Many that existed before the attacks grew to historic proportions as the Bush administration and Congress gave agencies more money than they were capable of responsibly spending.
The Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, for example, has gone from 7,500 employees in 2002 to 16,500 today.
The budget of the National Security Agency, which conducts electronic eavesdropping, doubled.
Thirty-five FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces became 106. It was phenomenal growth that began almost as soon as the Sept. 11 attacks ended.
Nine days after the attacks, Congress committed $40 billion beyond what was in the federal budget to fortify domestic defenses and to launch a global offensive against al-Qaeda. It followed that up with an additional $36.5 billion in 2002 and $44 billion in 2003. That was only a beginning.
With the quick infusion of money, military and intelligence agencies multiplied. Twenty-four organizations were created by the end of 2001, including the Office of Homeland Security and the Foreign Terrorist Asset Tracking Task Force. In 2002, 37 more were created to track weapons of mass destruction, collect threat tips and coordinate the new focus on counterterrorism. That was followed the next year by 36 new organizations; and 26 after that; and 31 more; and 32 more; and 20 or more each in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
But with all of that -- and I haven't even mentioned the hundreds of thousands of square feet of new security-related office space to house it all -- why must we endure the continued indiginity of full-body scanners etc. at our airports just to have a nice flight ... maybe? Why are our great institutions still ringed in mazes of siege-like security? Why must we forever live in a "post-9/11" world? The answer is because in all of these 263 organizations created or reorganized since 9/11 at a cost of untold billions of dollars there is one thing they all forgot.
Islam.
I will bet my bottom dollar that there is in all of this burgeoning bureacracy no single office organized to comprehend, apply or even be curious about, in Pentagon parlance, the enemy threat doctrine, which in this particular case is jihad. Similarly, I will bet there is no program designed to investigate the historical, canonical fruits of victorious jihad: namely, Islamic law (sharia), and the attendant condition of dhimmitude that sharia imposes upon Islamized populations -- which is both an objective and also an enabler of jihad. Instead, what we see in this fractic explosion of bunker-style infrastructure-cum-high-tech extravagance is an Orwellian study in mass denial, a hamster-in-a-cage approach to what is purposefully obscured as "transnational violent extremists" when the actual threat is in fact guilelessly and precisely presented by all perps as Islamic jihad.
Such is life in the politically correct, multiculturally dictated (read: dishonest) world.
Here's my idea for reassessing the national security problem and saving the taxpayers trillions in the process.
First, hire a crack team of true experts to catch security officials up on the fundamental doctrinal issues: On jihad as enemy threat doctrine, Maj. Stephen Coughlin; on jihad history and Islamic antisemitism, Andrew Bostom; on dhimmitude across the ages, Bat Ye'or; on revaluing the West, Ibn Warraq. There are many more experts I would tap -- and, whaddya know, they're not on Uncle Sam's payroll now (among those 854,000 Top Secret personnel). We can start off small, maybe run the thing out of my house. For the time being, Gen. Paul Vallely (USA ret.), our military "lily pad" expert, can even telecommute. (Following the disastrous Russian spy swap, I think we need to overhaul our Russian intel team, but that's another story.)
Next, stop Islamic immigration to minimize the growth of the pro-sharia demographic in this country. At least for the duration, stop and/or restrict travel to and from Islamic countries because we can't always count on airline passengers who don't have Top Secret clearance (or even the 854,000 bureacrats who do) to incapacitate bombers in flight. That won't stop jihadists boarding in London or Paris necessarily (unless there's transiting through from Pakistan, for example) but it would surely help prevent our airports from being the defensive line of battle that they now incredibly are.
Also, withdraw our troops from Afghanistan and Iraq and redeploy forces to the border with Mexico.
That should at least get us going. Oh, and one more thing: Turn St E's into a Top Secret rest home for several hundred thousand indefinitely furloughed intelligence analysts.
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