Review: Warning Signs

"Warning Signs" is a collection of Alan Caruba essays written over the last two years. They are remarkable for their clarity of vision, for Mr. Caruba does not view the world through rose-colored glasses, rather he sees the stark and real consequences of every event.

While other authors await its judgement, Mr. Caruba puts current events immediately within the context of history. This is a God-send in a time when America faces a war with terrorists from the Middle-East. In a section in "Warning Signs" on "The Islamic Jihad" we are thoroughly educated on the problems, people and even geography of the region.

Next, Alan Caruba thrashes the U.N. for its ineffective bungling, coupled with its megalomaniacal demands to be a world-governing body. Yet he is not satisfied to generalize and does not resort to ad hominem attacks. Rather he picks specific actions of the U.N. and ably illustrates how these actions are not beneficial to the free and sovereign nations within its membership. He reports on the graft within the World Food Program, the expansion of the UN environmental program as well as the "vast matrix of United Nations treaties, some of which actually cede our national sovereignty."

Beyond his ability to get to the root of an issue, Mr. Caruba is adept at providing logical and practical solutions. With his rapier sharp wit he attacks the left agenda on the environment, pointing up the hypocrisy of the greens, called Watermelons by some (green on the outside and red on the inside). They attack technology and advanced economies even though such advancements have clearly been shown to clean up the environment. (Just look at the improved air and water quality in the U.S. since the 1970s - are we driving more or fewer miles; are we creating more or fewer goods?)

The mission of "Warning Signs" is to show how the liberal left, if it continues to keep its hands on the tiller of the American Ship of State will effectively change life from the way we know it. In his quest to lay out the simple truth of liberal foolishness Alan Caruba also addresses Animal "Rights, Education and Immigration.

There are any number of writers of American Conservative thought, but few are so precise, so prescient and so able to get to the very core of an issue. "Warning Signs" is far greater than the sum of its parts. Yes, it is one man's view of the world; but it is also an indispensable education on the state of that world, and what we can do about it.

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