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Richard Clarke's book "Your Government Failed You" is a book that discusses how the United States government has repeatedly failed in its duties to protect the nation from various disasters. Clarke focuses on three specific disasters in which the United States government was unsuccessful in preventing: 9/11, the Iraq War, and Hurricane Katrina. He argues that these disasters are not isolated incidents but are instead part of a larger pattern of government incompetence. Clarke offers suggestions on how to address this problem and prevent future disasters.
Richard Clarke's dramatic statement to the grieving families during 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 the majority of our most crucial national-security issues, from Iraq to Katrina and beyond. This is not just a temporary failure of any one administration, Mr. Clarke insists, but rather an endemic problem, the result of a pattern of incompetence that must be understood, confronted, and prevented. In
Your Government Failed You, Clarke goes far beyond terrorism to examine the inexcusable chain of recurring U.S. government disasters and strategic blunders in recent years. Drawing on his thirty years in the White House, Pentagon, State Department, and intelligence community, Clarke gives us a privileged, if gravely troubling, look into the debacle of government policies, discovering patterns in the failures and offering ways to halt the catastrophic cycle once and for all.
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