Giuliani Getting Hawkish
WASHINGTON — Mayor Giuliani will announce a new four-point war strategy in New Hampshire today, an effort to refocus a primary campaign season for Republicans that has centered in recent weeks less on foreign affairs and more on immigration and domestic issues.
Specifically, Mr. Giuliani will call for a new military surge in Afghanistan, a change in the way America’s spies are promoted so that officers are rewarded for finding actionable intelligence and not just the number of agents they recruit, and a new war on Al Qaeda’s intricate network of Web sites, sites used both to communicate with its agents in the field and to recruit new jihadis.
“I think the problem in Pakistan and the assassination of Benazir Bhutto has raised a lot of concern and questions,” the Giuliani campaign’s senior foreign policy adviser, Charles Hill, said in an interview yesterday. “The media has focused on it, the American people have asked questions anew, it has certainly made clear that the challenge of Islamic radicalism is very much alive and very much a threat.”
Mr. Giuliani will give his speech today at the Wright Museum in Wolfeboro, N.H.
His plan is divided into four major themes: expanding the military, improving intelligence, homeland security, and winning the war of ideas against radical Islam. The speech differs in emphasis in important ways from Mr. Giuliani’s essay in Foreign Affairs from September, in that it focuses exclusively on what Mr. Giuliani calls the “terrorists’ war on us.”
(NYSun)
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