Reckless Disregard: How Liberal Democrats Undercut Our Military, Endanger Our Soldiers, and Jeopardize Our Security - Hardcover

Patterson, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0895260867 ISBN 13: 9780895260864

Publisher: Regnery, 2004

Synopsis

Reckless Disregard shows how liberal Democrats are wasteful of American military lives, and have committed themselves to policies that are inimical to America's national security. This is a frontline soldier's report on how liberalism and national security don't mix.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"Democratic presidents placed American fighting men and women in harm's way without the resolve to support them, without the moral authority and courage to command them, and without clear mission objectives for them to achieve."

-Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson

In his stunning new book, Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson (USAF, Ret.)-not only a combat veteran and author of the huge New York Times bestseller Dereliction of Duty, but a former White House military aide who carried the "nuclear football" for President Clinton-makes an overwhelming case that the once great Democratic Party cannot be entrusted with the nation's defense and foreign policy.

Coming from a military family of conservative Democrats, Lt. Col. Patterson learned the hard way that the Democratic Party of Jimmy Carter and Bill and Hillary Clinton, behaves with reckless disregard for American security and for the lives of America's soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines.

With coverage that spans the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq to debates in Congress, Lt. Col. Patterson reveals:

* How Clinton never understood that it takes twenty years for the military to develop a young soldier into a commander-and how he therefore sacrificed the future as well as destroyed the existing military systems * How the disastrous presidencies of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton encouraged radical Islamic terror against the United States * Why Bush critic Richard Clarke-whom Lt. Col. Patterson served with in the Clinton White House-is a fraud * How the Democrats continue to gut our military effectiveness

Relentless in its critique-told with all the passion and conviction of a combat pilot-and urgent in its message, Reckless Disregard belongs in the hands of every American patriot.

About the Author:

Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson, United States Air Force (Ret.), has served his country with distinction. His tours of duty included service in Grenada, Rwanda, Haiti, the Persian Gulf, and Bosnia, as well as at the White House as a military aide to President Bill Clinton. He also served as cadet group commander at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Lt. Col. Patterson is the author of the New York Times bestseller Dereliction of Duty and is the national security correspondent for Humaneventsonline.com. He lives with his wife and children in Atlanta, Georgia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Regnery
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0895260867
• ISBN 13: 9780895260864
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272