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Dean’s website contains a discussion of his approach to homeland security:
In addition to increased military, intelligence and police focus on offensive operation against terrorists – and with increased support and cooperation of our allies – the Dean Plan is built around three circles of defense:
- a circle of preparation and response to ensure that the resources are available immediately at the local and state level to enable first-responders to mitigate the effects of any future attack and cope with the consequences of such an attack without compromising our civil liberties;
- a circle of protection to defend our critical infrastructure and borders;
- a circle of prevention, in cooperation with Russia and our allies, to reduce the chances that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) will fall into the hands of terrorists or states that mean us harm and to promote the principles of democracy, tolerance, human rights, and equal access for women in societies that have heretofore been breeding grounds for terrorists.
This is hardly a plan for security. It’s a plan that explicitly anticipates the reverse. Dean’s vision is of the U.S. in the same position as Israel, suffering regular attacks.
There’s little here about preventing such attacks. Let’s start with the first sentence: “In addition to increased military, intelligence and police focus on offensive operation against terrorists—”. Increased? Dean opposes everything we’re doing now. In what way would he increase these efforts? And ”...with increased support and cooperation of our allies”—how’s he going to make that happen?
What’s more, these circles Dean talks about don’t exist. Everyone knows that there are too many targets in America—critical infrastructure and otherwise—to defend them all.
Dean’s points one and two are devoted to his planned response to future attacks on American soil. Again we ask: what is the left’s plan to prevent such attacks? What would the left do to prevent another 9-11?
