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...President's Oval forms a power chart similar to the old Kremlin reviewing stand, where Stalin's rankings of his Politburo members were measured by how close to him they stood during parades. Roger Porter, who served as an aide to three Presidents in the West Wing, notes that Homeland Security head Tom Ridge is only a few steps down the hall from President Bush's office--"a good measure of the President's priorities...
...Absent a direct threat to American national security, foreign policy in general disappeared from U.S. political discourse. The past three presidential campaigns--1992, 1996 and 2000--may well have been the most devoid of foreign-policy discussion of any during the 20th century. It stood to reason. If the homeland was secure, if there was no deadly adversary stalking us, who cared what was going on out there...
What single issue proved the most politically deadly in this campaign? A bill to create a Department of Homeland Security. Who'd have thunk it? It had the appearance of mere bureaucratic shuffling. It had none of the drama of the war-and-peace Iraq vote. Democrats figured they could safely block the bill over a dispute about job protection. Big mistake. Republicans made the issue into a surrogate for post-9/11 national security. Everyone supports the war on terror. The homeland-security bill, however, made the platitude concrete by asking the question: Are you ready to put antiterrorism...
...revelation that North Korea is building nuclear weapons [WORLD, Oct. 28] demands a reappraisal of U.S. government priorities. Surely the economy comes first, then homeland security, nuclear arms in North Korea and bioweapons in Iraq. It is irrational to consider Iraq more dangerous than the rogue state of North Korea or urban terrorism. Let's get to work on matters that affect Americans. As for Iraq, we should treat it as we have been treating Saudi Arabia: buy its oil and protect it from aggression by competing nations. JOHN O'MARA BOCKRIS College Station, Texas
Maybe it was U.S. Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge's visit to London. Or maybe it was just more aftershocks from last month's bombing in Bali. But Europe was starting to feel a lot like the U.S., as terror alerts were issued across the continent. In Britain, the Home Office issued a statement saying that terrorists may "try to develop a so-called dirty bomb or some kind of poison gas," though within an hour the statement was replaced by a less frightening one. In Berlin, Germany's intelligence chief, August Hanning, said on TV: "The fear is very...