What should Team Bush say about the 9-11 Commission report.
Glenn Reynolds thinks that President Bush should brush off the 9-11 Commission report with a cheap partisan wisecrack.
By contrast, Dan Drezner thinks that would be a bad idea, because it would suggest that the President cares more about partisan advantage than about national security.
Much as I repect Dan, I think that Glenn has the better of this argument.
After all, it’s true that the President cares more about partisan advantage than about national security.
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out.
Books:
Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken)
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist
Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993)
Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989)
UCLA Homepage
Curriculum Vitae
Contact: Markarkleiman-at-gmail.com
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