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    Failures of Imagination: The Deadliest Threats to Our Homeland--and How to Thwart Them
    Failures of Imagination: The Deadliest Threats to Our Homeland--and How to Thwart Them
    Failures of Imagination: The Deadliest Threats to Our Homeland--and How to Thwart Them
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    Failures of Imagination: The Deadliest Threats to Our Homeland--and How to Thwart Them

    Written by Michael McCaul

    Narrated by Jonathan Yen

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    From the Chairman of the U. S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, a gripping look at the most dangerous and unexpected threats to our national security-and the actions needed to protect us.

    America is overwrought with fear. Serial killers, terrorist groups, nuclear attacks, deadly pandemics-every day a new headline hits, warning of the next inevitable catastrophe that will bring the country to ruins. The media fans embers of threats into fires that stir the entire nation into terror. But little do the American people know, the most real and imminent dangers to the country are the ones we've heard about the least and are doing the least about.

    Congressman and Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, Michael McCaul, has spent years in Washington watching the administration turn a blind eye to the most pressing possible threats to the country. Now, in Failures Of Imagination, McCaul turns away from the over-sensationalized, unrealistic fears circulated through the media in order to expose the most legitimate and looming national security threats, which have long been swept under the rug by the administration.

    In his book, McCaul details the most pressing threats to our country based on his deep knowledge of our national security readiness, and advocates for the action needed to protect us from them. In stunning detail, he depicts the truth behind these hazards that are closer than we realize-from well-researched patterns that depict the issue's growing urgency, to the past responses (or lack thereof) from the administration-and provides potential solutions for the government to take in order to keep Americans safe.

    As the 2016 presidential election quickly approaches, Americans must turn their attention to these real and present dangers, and demand an administration that will combat them with the seriousness and urgency they require.

    Congressman Michael McCaul represents the state of Texas as a Republican in the US House of Representatives. Raised in Dallas, he attended San Antonio's Trinity University, then Harvard. He was elected to Congress in 2005 and appointed the chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security in 2013.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJan 12, 2016
    ISBN9781681680712
    Failures of Imagination: The Deadliest Threats to Our Homeland--and How to Thwart Them

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      I feared Failures of Imagination was going to be partisan, and I was amply rewarded. Right in the introduction, McCaul blames President Obama for security failures. So this is not an impartial examination of anything. The book turns into eight case studies of the near future, in which someone, somewhere falls victim to terrorism. Each one uses a profile of the terrorist and his or her last days, and profiles of American victims, in their last days, interspersed with official reports to the President, and McCaul’s recommendation to prevent more of the same. In every case, it the Obama Administration’s fault for not having bigger, tougher, meaner policies, more oversight, more intrusion, more policing and more foreign involvement. Basically, the USA needs to be under a bombproof dome.Despite the title, the stories are all easily imaginable. McCaul made them more accessible by basing them on actual events elsewhere. For example: an attack on the world’s largest shopping mall, based on the attack at a Nairobi mall a year ago. Ironically, very little imagination was employed in the eight stories. Every one of them could be the plot of a film or a thriller. And probably is.I was rather hoping for more imaginative scenarios, as the title led me to believe. Maybe using Google driverless bomb-equipped cars to repeatedly attack the White House until they could break through the fence and blow up the building. Aside from attacks on Obama, the only other effect was fear. We should all be even more afraid. Of everyone. Every day. Any of these events is possible at any time, thanks to Obama, so we need to be fearful of them. While I was not impressed by Failures of Imagination, I can understand where many, many Americans would be enlightened (and entertained) by the scenarios, and their view of the world reinforced. So for many, it is a worthwhile read.David Wineberg