A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror (191 page)

49. George Gilder,
Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World
(New York: Free Press, 2000), 7.

50. Joel Kotkin and Ross C. DeVol, “Knowledge-Value Cities in the Digital Age,” Milken Institute Study, February 13, 2001, 2.

51. Ibid.

52. George Bittlingmayer and Thomas W. Hazlett, “DOS Kapital: Has Antitrust Action Against Microsoft Created Value in the Computer Industry?”
Journal of Financial Economics
, 55 (2000), 329–359; Donald J. Boudreaux and Burton W. Folsom, “Microsoft and Standard Oil: Radical Lessons for Antitrust Action,”
The Antitrust Bulletin
, Fall 1999, 555–76. Also see Bittlingmayer’s “Antitrust and Business Activity: The First Quarter Century,”
Business History Review
, Autumn 1996, 363–401.

53. Gary Quinlivan, “Multinational Corporations: Myths and Facts,”
Religion and Liberty
, November/December 2000, 8–10.

54. James Rolph Edwards, “The Myth of Corporate Domination,”
Liberty
, January 2001, 41–42.

55. Jeffrey A. Frankel and Peter R. Orszag, eds.,
American Economic Policy in the 1990s
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002).

56. Solomon Moore, “Census’ Multiracial Option Overturns Traditional Views,”
Los Angeles Times
, March 5, 2001.

57. Dinesh D’Souza,
The End of Racism
(New York: Free Press, 1995).

58. “BATF Referrals for Prosecution Peak in 1992,”
The American Guardian
, January 2000, 7.

59. FBI uniform crime rate data at www.guncite.com.

60. The Pew results appear online at http://www.publicagenda.org/specials/religion/religion.htm.

61. Thomas C. Reeves,
The Empty Church: The Suicide of Liberal Christianity
(New York: Free Press, 1996), 51–52.

62. Gallup cited in Reeves,
Empty Church
, 52.

63.
The Starr Report: The Official Report of the Independent Counsel’s Investigation of the President
(Rocklin, CA: FORUM, 1998), n.3, 50.

64.
Jones v. Clinton
, 117 S. Ct. 1636, 1652 (1997).

65. Roger Morris,
Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America
(New York: Regnery, 1999); Barbara Olson,
Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton
(New York: Regnery, 1999).

66. Matt Drudge,
The Drudge Manifesto
(New York: New American Library, 2000).

67. Steven M. Gillon,
The American Paradox: A History of the United States Since 1945
(Boston: Hougton-Mifflin, 2003), 444.

68. David Schippers,
Sell Out: The Inside Story of Clinton’s Impeachment
(Washington: Regnery, 2000).

69. Mark Bowden,
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
(New York: Signet, 2000).

70. General Merrill A. McPeak, “The Kosovo Result: The Facts Speak for Themselves,”
Armed Forces Journal International
, September 1999, 64.

71. Khidr Hamzah and Jeff Stein,
Saddam’s Bomb Maker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda
(New York: Scribner, 2000).

72. Martin Gilbert,
History of the Twentieth Century
, 866.

73. “US missed three chances to seize Bin Laden,”
Sunday Times
(UK), January 6, 2002.

74. An extensive review of the failures of the Clinton administration to pursue bin Laden appears in Richard Minitier,
Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton’s Failures Unleashed Global Terror
(Washington, DC: Regnery, 2003); Gerald Posner,
Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11
(New York: Random House, 2003); Bill Gertz,
Breakdown: How America’s Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
(Washington, DC: Regnery, 2002).

 

Chapter 22. America, World Leader, 2000 and Beyond

1. Tom Brokaw,
The Greatest Generation
(New York: Random House, 1998).

2. Department of Commerce report in August 2002, discussed in Robert Novak, “Clinton-Cooked Books?” www.cnn.com/insidepolitics, August 9, 2002.

3. Bob Woodward,
The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House
(New York: Pocket Books, 1995).

4. J. H. Hatfield and Mark Crispin Miller,
Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President
(New York: St. Martin’s, 1999); George W. Bush and Karen Hughes,
A Charge to Keep
(New York: William Morrow and Co., 1999); Bill Minutaglio,
First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty
(New York: Times, 1999); Frank Bruni,
Ambling into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush
(New York: HarperCollins, 2002). On the first two and a half years of the Bush presidency, see David Frum,
The Right Man
(New York: Random House, 2003).

5. “Five Weeks of History,”
USA Today
, December 14, 2000.

6. Bill Sammon,
At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election
(Washington, DC: Regnery, 2001), 78.

7. Howard Kurtz, “Feeding the Media Beast: Leaks, Rats, and Black Berrys,”
Washington Post
, December 17, 2000; George Bennett, “LePore: Ballot ‘Probably Not the Wisest Thing,’” Palm Beach
Post
, December 16, 2000.

8. James V. Grimaldi and Soberto Suro, “Risky Bush Strategy Paid Off,” Washington
Post
, December 17, 2000.

9. Sammon,
At Any Cost
, 181–200.

10. Grimaldi and Suro, “Risky Bush Strategy Paid Off.”

11.
USA Today
, “Five Weeks of History.”

12. “Florida Voter Errors Cost Gore the Election,”
USA Today
, May 11–13, 2001.

13. Maureen Dowd, “Hillary’s Stocking Stuffer,” New York
Times
, February 21, 2001.

14. Barbara Olson,
The Final Days
(Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2001).

15. See George Lardner Jr., “Clinton Shipped Furniture a Year Ago,” Washington
Post
, February 10, 2001; “Hey, Wait a Minute,”
The Hotline
(Washington), February 12, 2001.

16. John McLaughlin,
John McLaughlin’s One on One
, January 26, 2001.

17. Olson,
Final Days
, chap. 10 details the Rich saga.

18. Dan Balz and Bob Woodward, “America’s Chaotic Road to War,” www.washingtonpost.com, January 27, 2002.

19. Alan Levin, Marilyn Adams, and Blake Morrison, “Amid Terror, a Drastic Decision: Clear the Skies,”
USA Today
, August 12, 2002.

20. Interview with Charles Calomiris, September 18, 2001.

21. Balz and Woodward, “America’s Chaotic Road to War.”

22. Ibid.

23. Ibid.

24. Ibid.

25. Owen Moritz, “Chilling Tapes of Bravest in WTC,” New York
Daily News
, November 16, 2002.

26. Bill Sammon,
Fighting Back
(Washington, DC: Regnery, 2002), 106.

27. Benjamin Kline, “No One Could Have Planned for This,” Dayton
Daily News
, September 12, 2000.

28. Lisa Beamer,
Let’s Roll! Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage
(Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 2002).

29. Quoted in Nancy Gibbs, “Special Report: The Day of the Attack,”
Time
, September 12, 2001, located at http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,174655–1,00.html.

30. Balz and Woodward, “America’s Chaotic Road to War.”

31. Quoted in Sammon,
Fighting Back
, 131.

32. Posner,
Why America Slept
, 30; Minitier,
Losing bin Laden
, 6–15.

33. Sammon,
Fighting Back
, 138.

34. Glenn Kessler, “Riding to the Economy’s Rescue,” Washington
Post
, September 25, 2001.

35. Peter Navarro and Aron Spencer, “September 11, 2001: Assessing the Costs of Terrorism,”
Milken Institute Review
, Fourth Quarter, 2001, 17–31; Steven Brill,
After
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003).

36. Sammon,
Fighting Back
, 163–65. See also Larry Schweikart, “The Weight of the World and the Responsibility of a Generation,” http://ashbrook.org/publicat/guest/01/schweikart/ weightofworld.html.

37. Ibid., 189.

38. Bob Woodward and Dan Balz, “Combating Terrorism: It Starts Today,” Washington
Post
, February 1, 2002.

39. Ibid.

40. Ben Fenton, “1,300 Enemy Men Killed by Handful of Green Berets,” London (UK)
Telegraph
, January 9, 2002.

41. Sammon,
Fighting Back
, 263.

42. Ibid., 262.

43. Fareed Zakaria, “Face the Facts: Bombing Works,”
Newsweek
, November 26, 2001, online edition quoted, http://www.msnbc.com/news/662668. asp.

44. Sammon,
Fighting Back
, 308.

45. Ibid., 274.

46. Martin, “9/11 Bombshell: New Evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties?”

47. Howard Fineman, “How Bush Did It,” www.msnbc.com/news/832464.asp.

48. James Carney and John F. Dickerson, “W. and the ‘Boy Genius,’”
Time
magazine, online edition, www. time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,388904,00html.

49. David S. Broder, “Radical Conservatism,” Washington
Post
, September 25, 2002.

50. Evan Thomas and Martha Brant, “The Secret War,”
Newsweek
, April 14, 2003, at http://www. msnbc.com/news/899657.asp?0sl=-32.

51. Chris Matthews, writing in the San Francisco
Chronicle
, said the “invasion of Iraq…will join the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam…and Somalia in the history of military catastrophe.” (“To Iraq and Ruin,” August 25, 2002). R. W. Apple of the New York
Times
, even as American forces were annihilating enemy resistance, warned, “With every passing day, it is more evident that the allies made two gross military misjudgments in concluding that coalition forces could safely bypass Basra and Nasiriya.” (“Bush Peril: Shifting Sand and Fickle Opinion,” March 30, 2003). Former CNN correspondent Peter Arnett, in a widely publicized interview on Iraqi TV the same day said, “The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance”—this about a war plan that had moved farther, faster, and more decisively (with fewer casualties) than any military campaign in human history. Maureen Dowd complained that the ground troops were left “exposed and insufficiently briefed on the fedayeen [Saddam’s suicide squads].” (“Back Off, Syria and Iran,” New York
Times
, March 30, 2003). Barry McCaffrey, a retired general, was one of many former military types whose assessment of the operations was completely adrift from reality. Said McCaffrey on the BBC, the United States “could take, bluntly, a couple to 3,000 casualties” (Reuters, March 24, 2003). As of 2004, with coalition forces still supporting the Iraqi interim government, U.S. deaths in the campaign surpassed 1,000—a fraction of what it cost to take a single small island called Iwo Jima from Japan in World War II. For a summary of these and other egregiously wrong predictions, see “Hall of Shame,” National Review Online, April 10, 2003.

52. David Zucchino,
Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad
(New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004); Colonel Gregory Fontenot, et al.,
On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom
(Fort Leavenworth, KA: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2003); Bing West and Ray L. Smith,
The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division
(New York: Bantam Books, 2003); Williamson Murray and Robert H. Scales Jr.,
The Iraq War: A Military History
(Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2003); Rick Atkinson,
In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat
(New York: Henry Holt, 2004); Karl Zinsmeister,
Boots on the Ground: A Month with the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq
(New York: Truman Talley Books, 2003).