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Richard Clarke's dramatic statement to the grieving families through the 9/11 Commission hearings touched a raw nerve across America. Not only had our government failed to prevent the 2001 terrorist attacks, but it has proven itself, time and again, incapable of handling nearly all our most crucial national security issues, from Iraq to Katrina and beyond. This is not just a momentary failure of our own current leadership—it is a systemic problem, the result of a pattern of incompetence that must definitely be understood, confronted, and prevented.Clarke's first book, the number one bestseller Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, described how the USA had stumbled into a struggle with violent Islamist extremists. Now, in Your Government Failed You, Clarke looks at why these unconscionable failures have continued and how America and the world can succeed up against the terrorists. Yet Clarke also will go far beyond terrorism, to look at the inexcusable chain of recurring U.S. government disasters. Despite the lessons of Vietnam, there is certainly Iraq. A path of intelligence failures litters the Washington panorama. From Katrina to color codes and duct tape, "homeland security" has been an oxymoron. How come the superpower continue to bobble nationwide security?Clarke minces no words in his study of the breadth and depth of the mediocrity, entropy, and collapse endemic in America's national security programs. For the United States to avoid its string of strategic mistakes, we first need to comprehend why they happen. Drawing on his thirty years in the White House, Pentagon, State Department, and intelligence community, Clarke gives us a privileged, if horrifying, look into the debacle of government policies, discovering patterns in the failures and offering ways to avoid the cycle forever.
