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A: You are really asking two questions: a.) How would I have acted? b.) How would the world have reacted differently than if I had been the President reacting, instead of Bush? You are also pointing, implicitly, to a third question: international terrorism, which has very little correspondence what actually happened on Sept. 11th.
a.) I would not have reacted differently than I did react, in my broadcast reaction to the attacks in New York and Washington as I did during the live radio interview I gave while those events were breaking. That reaction from me is reported in full on my website.
b.) As President, rather than the potential President I am, I would have responded much as President Franklin Roosevelt had responded to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Notably, my policies for dealing with the present world situation are well known, and well prepared. Since the President has no relevant plans for actually dealing with the actual strategic mess into which he has fallen, a public reaction to the needed policy, coming from me, would have a qualitatively strategic significance than a policy of similar appearance coming from him. Above all, I would not have made the mistake of blaming Osama bin Laden for an operation for which he had no capability, and on the basis of suppositions for which the U.S.A. to this day has not offered the least proof!
c.) I have been involved in strategic intelligence and counter-intelligence as such for more than a quarter-century. My development of the proposal which Reagan named the SDI, reflects some of that. My investigations of international terrorism goes back more than thirty-two years. I know of no important case of international terrorism which was not shown to be an operation conducted either by major governments, or powerful financial interests with political and financial capabilities comparable to those of governments. My most significant contributions in the field of counter- intelligence against international terrorist operations, have been the area of drug-trafficking-based terrorism, which is very often also a product of covert weapons- trafficking. Naturally, apart from the events of Sept. 11th as such, drug-production and trafficking in and out of Afghanistan was, and has remained a major area of problems in its own right, as in the case of the Colombia and related drug-trafficking base of terrorist operations in Central and South America.
There is much more to be added, but that is available on my website.
-Lyndon.
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