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   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   Todd Bensman's America's Covert Border War faces several challenges right out   
   of   
   the gate. First, it's a work of speculative nonfiction about how terrorists   
   plotting to kill Americans could cross the U.S.-Mexico border, even though none   
   are known to have done so. Second, it was published 15 years after fear of   
   Islamic terrorism peaked. Third, the Trump administration—the biggest source   
   of   
   public speculation about Muslim terrorists crossing the border—is over. Only   
   the   
   best of writers would have overcome those challenges to produce a good book.   
      
   Bensman overcame none of them.   
      
   This book's biggest problem is that the author has nothing to write about. Not   
   a   
   single terrorist has illegally crossed the Mexican border and then committed an   
   attack on U.S. soil. Bensman systematically exaggerates threats, selectively   
   excludes information, and blurs the line between how terrorists theoretically   
   could have infiltrated the country and what they actually have done.   
      
   https://reason.com/2021/09/04/a-clear-and-present-lack-of-danger/   
      
   No terrorists infiltrated the U.S. over the southern border.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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