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CHAPTER EIGHT: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
132 almost half of Silicon Valley’s:
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/01/engineerstudy.html
.
132 “We cannot build a unified country”:
George W. Bush, “Address to the Nation on Immigration Reform,” the White House, Washington, DC (May 15, 2006).
133 case Tom Brokaw documented of a family:
Tom Brokaw, “The 21st Century Immigrant Story,” NBC News, December 27, 2006.
133 “If we didn’t have immigrant labor”:
Thomas Green, quoted by Christopher Helman, “Labor Pains,”
Forbes
, June 28, 2010.
134 “Unfortunately, reform has been held”:
Barack Obama, “Remarks on Immigration,” American University, Washington, DC (July 1, 2010).
135 But it pushed the same poison:
Charles E. Schumer and Lindsey O. Graham, “The Right Way to Mend Immigration,”
Washington Post
, March 19, 2010.
136 “have been more than patient”:
Jan Brewer, quoted by Peter Slevin, “Both Sides in Immigration Debate Blame Congressional Inaction for Arizona Law,”
Washington Post
, April 27, 2010.
136 “completely unacceptable”:
Gabrielle Giffords, “Giffords: Bipartisanship on Border Security Is Possible,”
www.giffords.house.gov
, October 13, 2010.
137 2010 National Drug Control Strategy:
Office of National Drug Control Policy, “2010 National Strategy,” October 30, 2010 (available at
www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/strategy/
).
137 The 2009 National Survey of Drug Use:
http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/NSDUH/2k9NSDUH/2k9Results.htm#1.1
.
138 they’d not bothered to actually read:
“Napolitano Admits She Hasn’t Read Arizona Immigration Law in ‘Detail,’”
www.FOXNews.com
, May 18, 2010.
138 “a misdirected expression of frustration”:
Barack Obama, quoted by Jonathan Weisman, “Obama Gets an Earful from Mexico’s Calderón,”
Wall Street Journal
, May 19, 2010.
139 Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner:
Kirit Radia, “US Cites AZ Immigration Law During Human Rights Talks with China, Conservatives Call It an Apology,” ABC News, May 17, 2010.
139 “The Mexican government condemns the approval”:
Jonathan J. Cooper, “Arizona Immigration Law Target of Protest,” Associated Press, April 26, 2010.
139 In fact, a recent
New York Times
/CBS News poll:
Randal C. Archibold and Megan Thee-Brenan, “Poll Shows Most in U.S. Want Overhaul of Immigration Laws,”
New York Times
, May 3, 2010.
141 About 60 percent of illegals:
Hans von Spakovsky, “A Broken Immigration Court System,” Heritage Foundation, June 18, 2010. He says 59 percent don’t show up; I rounded that up to say “about 60 percent.” He says that “only 9 percent” appeal; I said that “almost 90 percent . . . don’t appeal.”
141 1.2 million illegal Mexican immigrants went home:
Stephen A. Camorota and Karen Jensenius, “A Shifting Tide: Recent Trends in the Illegal Immigrant Population,” Center for Immigration Studies, July 2009.
141 Mexican immigration in 2008–9 was one-fourth:
Jeffrey S. Passel and D’Vera Cohn, “Mexican Immigrants: How Many Come? How Many Leave?” Pew Hispanic Center, July 22, 2009.
142 immigrants started one-quarter of all new:
Kauffman Foundation, “America’s Loss Is the World’s Gain: America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part IV,” March 2009.
142 “except of useful mechanics”:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21626
.
142 Hispanic students remain:
http://www.cis.org/california-education
.
142 illegal immigration costs all of us $113 billion:
Jack Martin, “The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on U.S. Taxpayers,” Federation for American Immigration Reform, July 2010.
CHAPTER NINE: Bullies on the Playground Understand Only One Thing
145 it was Rick Rescorla:
Amanda Ripley, “A Survival Guide to Catastrophe,”
Time
, May 29, 2008.
148 the president spoke at the Fort Hood:
Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President at Memorial Service at Fort Hood,” Fort Hood, Texas (November 10, 2009).
148 excerpt from the congressional hearing:
Eric Holder, testimony before House Judiciary Committee, Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice, May 13, 2010,
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/Holder100513.pdf
.
150 “A Muslim has no nationality except his belief”:
Sayyid Qutb, “A Muslim’s Nationality and His Belief.”
151 “jihad against America is binding upon myself”:
Anwar al-Awlaki, quoted by Cynthia Johnson, “Yemen Preacher Urges Jihad on United States: Tape,” Reuters, March 18, 2010.
151 “one of its own citizens far from a combat zone”:
Scott Shane, “U.S. Approval of Killing of Cleric Causes Unease,”
New York Times
, May 13, 2010.
152 “If the court does not temper”:
Robert Jackson, dissent,
Terminiello v. City of Chicago
, 337 U.S. 1 (1949).
154 “an unnecessarily protracted, risk-averse process”:
Ray Kelly, quoted in “Ray Kelly’s Wiretap Alarm,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 8, 2008.
154 “We didn’t know they had progressed”:
John Brennan, “Briefing by Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano, Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security Brennan, and Press Secretary Gibbs,” Washington, DC (January 7, 2010).
157 A man who bought a condo:
James Barron and Michael S. Schmidt, “From Suburban Father to a Terrorism Suspect,”
New York Times
, May 4, 2010.
157 the unclassified summary of a report:
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, “Unclassified Executive Summary of the Committee Report on the Attempted Terrorist Attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253,” 111th Congr., 2d sess., May 18, 2010.
160 Charles Faddis has written, there is:
Charles S. Faddis,
Willful Neglect
(Guildford, CT: Lyons Press, 2010).
162 In a survey taken there in April 2010:
Richard A. Opel Jr. and Taimoor Shah, “A Killing Further Erodes Afghan Faith in Leaders,”
New York Times
, April 20, 2010.
163 “not an adequate partner”:
Karl Eikenberry, quoted by Thomas L. Friedman, “This Time We Really Mean It,”
New York Times
, March 30, 2010.
165 “The ideology of global jihad”:
Bruce Riedel, quoted by David E. Sanger, “U.S. Pressure Helps Militants Overseas Focus Efforts,”
New York Times
, May 8, 2010.
CHAPTER TEN: When the Bullets Are Real, There Aren’t Any Toy Soldiers
169 20 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan vets:
RAND, “Invisible Wounds: Mental Health and Cognitive Care Needs of America’s Returning Veterans,” 2008.
169 Stanford University study concluded it was likely:
Allen G. Breed, “In Tide of PTSD Cases, Fear of Fraud Growing,” Associated Press, May 3, 2010.
169 Soldiers serving the multiple deployments:
Mary Susan Littlepage, “Multiple Deployments Lead to Major Increase in PTSD Cases, New Study Says,” Truthout, January 5, 2010 (available at
www.truth-out.org/105098
).
169 traumatic brain injury (TBI):
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America 2010 Legislative Agenda, published in January 2010. The TBI stat is from page 14 (it says 19 percent, and I rounded that up to “almost 20 percent”).
169 Mental health problems:
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America 2010 Legislative Agenda, published in January 2010. The mental health problems stat is from page 14 (it says “more than 227,000,” and I rounded that up to “almost 250,000”).
172 20 percent of its disability ratings:
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America 2010 Legislative Agenda, published in January 2010. The 20 percent disability ratings stat is from page 4 (it says “about 17%,” and I rounded that up to “almost 20 percent”).
172 “Our goal is to give them the best”:
Joe Villalobos, quoted by Michelle Roberts, “New Program Rebuilds Faces of Soldiers, Vets,” Associated Press, July 31, 2010.
177 “military life is fundamentally”:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/10/654.html
.
178 10 percent said they would leave:
Brendan McGarry, “Troops Oppose Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask,’”
Military Times
, December 29, 2008.
179 48 percent of conservatives describe themselves:
John Fritze, “Poll: More Americans ‘Extremely Patriotic,’”
USA Today,
July 2, 2010.
179 discharges for homosexuality:
http://www.cmrlink.org/HMilitary.asp?docID=360
.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: With Enemies Like This, Who Needs Friends?
182 Obama’s handpicked commander was even forced:
Michael Hastings, “The Stanley McChrystal Scoop that Changed History,”
Rolling Stone
, July 8–22, 2010.
183 Churchill has less happy connotations:
Tim Shipman, “Barack Obama Sends Bust of Winston Churchill on Its Way Back to Britain,”
Daily Telegraph
, February 14, 2009.
184 “Any world order that elevates one nation”:
Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on a New Beginning at Cairo University,” Cairo, Egypt (June 4, 2009).
184 “I believe in American exceptionalism”:
Barack Obama, “Remarks at the NATO Summit,” Straasbourg, France (April 4, 2009).
185 “Our long-term security will come not”:
Toby Harnden, “Barack Obama Declares the ‘War on Terror’ Is Over,”
Daily Telegraph
, May 27, 2010.
186 “Islam is not part of the problem”:
Obama, “Remarks by the President on a New Beginning.”
188 “Settlements have to be stopped”:
Barack Obama, “Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel in Press Availability,” Washington, DC (May 18, 2009).
189 “does not accept the legitimacy”:
“Obama: U.S. Does Not Recognize ‘Legitimacy of Continued Israeli Settlements,’”
www.FOXNews.com
, September 23, 2009.
190 “Let me be clear, this is not”:
Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President at the United Nations Security Council Summit on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament,” United Nations (September 24, 2009).
190 it “deplores the decision to single out Israel”:
Janine Zacharia and Mary Beth Sheridan, “Israel Angry Over Being Singled Out in Action Plan on Nuclear Weapons,”
Washington Post
, May 30, 2010.
191 “abandoned Israel in the U.N.”:
Elliot Abrams, “Joining the Jackals,”
Weekly Standard
, June 2, 2010.
191 “to provide the time and the space”:
Barack Obama, “Press Conference by President Obama, Russian President Medvedev,” Washington, DC (June 24, 2010).
192 “sensed desperation in the Obama administration”:
John Bolton, quoted by Peter Baker and David E. Sanger, “U.S. Makes Concessions to Russia for Iran Sanctions,”
New York Times
, May 21, 2010.
192 “Let’s not forget that Russia supported”:
David J. Kramer, quoted by Peter Baker and David E. Sanger, “U.S. Makes Concessions to Russia for Iran Sanctions,”
New York Times
, May 21, 2010.
192 “Will it deter [Iran] from their ambitions”:
Leon Panetta, quoted in “CIA Director Skeptical of Iran Sanctions,”
Washington Times
, June 27, 2010.
192 “America will always seek a world”:
Barack Obama, “Remarks at West Point Graduation,” West Point, NY (May 22, 2010).
EPILOGUE: A Simple Election
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