iUniverse announces publication of Regime Change: National Security in the Age of Terrorism

Regime Change is a series of "unauthorized" speeches and statements by a Democratic Senator and presidential candidate who closely resembles John Kerry

Newport Beach, CA (PRWEB) April 18, 2004 --iUniverse (www.iuniverse.com) is proud to announce publication of Regime Change, by Arnold Schuchter, a series of speeches and statements on national security and counter-terrorism issues made by a Democratic presidential candidate between September 11, 2002 and April 20, 2004. No mere coincidence, this presidential candidate closely resembles Senator John Kerry who, baring some unforeseen disaster, will be crowned Democratic presidential candidate at the end of July. Regime Change aims to provide the basis for:

§   voters to make clear choices between presidential candidates in 2004 on national security and foreign policy leadership capabilities;
§   removal of George W. Bush and his top officials from the White House in the November 2004 election;
§   the next president to completely restructure the U.S. Intelligence Community and its relationship to the National Security Council, deal with the causes of stateless terrorism, and make strategic foreign policy decisions related to Iraq and the Middle East, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia, North Korea and Iran.

A recent Newsweek poll says that two-thirds of Americans believe that Iraq has become another Vietnam quagmire," said Schuchter. Regime Change views Iraq as potentially much more explosive and dangerous than Vietnam. The unilateral, hurried invasion of Iraq was the most profound intelligence and foreign policy miscalculation in modern history. The Bush administrations belief that the U.S. would be treated as liberators" in a nation with a brutal colonial past was an even greater misjudgment than declaring war to pursue weapons of mass destruction that did not exist."

The author expresses grave concerns that U.S. occupation of Iraq is deeply polarizing Western and Islamic worlds. Coalition occupation of Iraq has become the worldwide rallying cry for Islamic nationalism as Arab television and new media spread and amplify the message of American colonialism" to hundreds of millions of Muslims.

While the author is unsparing in his criticism of the Bush administration for failure to respond to terrorism prior to September 11, 2001, he is also critical of previous administrations, and especially the CIA, for mistakes on Afghanistan and Pakistan policies that led to thousands of Afghani deaths, empowerment of the Taliban, Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, and bolstering of Afghani warlords that today rule narcotics-producing fiefdoms and block efforts to bring about a democratic government.

Regime Change explains how the Iraq war: distracted President Bush and top U.S. officials from a massive overhaul of the CIA and FBI; diverted U.S. intelligence, military and fiscal resources away from domestic terrorism preparedness and a multilateral campaign against stateless terrorism; and allowed Pakistan and its global nuclear black market to operate virtually unrestrained to proliferate nuclear weapons technology.

Speeches and statements by the Democratic presidential candidate in Regime Change challenge the Bush administrations style of talking tough, reacting with military violence rather than multilateral diplomacy, and generating enormous resentment toward the U.S that has transformed the postwar conflict between Iraqis and Americans into the perception of religious warfare between Muslims and a Christian superpower that zealously believes in the inherent superiority of its democratic society.

Regime Change makes the strong case that the U.S. has to redefine its goals in Iraq and its strategy for fighting terrorism around the world.

According to the author, the U.S. must ask its friends, allies and the UN not simply to bail us out of Iraq but to assist in substantial ways with urgent economic, infrastructure and security development efforts in which the primarily beneficiaries of nation-building will be Iraqis.

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Arnold Schuchter has been a legislative staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives (John Conyers, Jr., D-Mich./14th), an international city planning and regional development consultant, and strategic planner for multinational consulting companies and the governments of Singapore and Malaysia. He has taught development planning in graduate schools at the University of British Columbia, Boston University, where he also directed a research institute on national social policy, and George Washington University. A principal planner for Bostons urban renewal program and one of the architects of the War of Poverty legislation, Schuchter has written books on urban planning, racial issues and a world geography textbook. A Chinese Mandarin linguist, he served as chief intelligence analyst for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Pacific Forces, Hawaii. Schuchter graduated from Harvard College.

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