Reagan administration veteran Clyde Prestowitz explains that four years of Republican rule have put the country on the wrong track.

In the first of a series from Mother Jones on prominent conservatives who have become Bush critics, Clyde Prestowitz, counselor to Ronald Reagan's secretary of commerce, says this and much more: "I think that we are less safe today than we were three or four years ago. And I’ll tell you something else: I have recently had discussions with several former national security advisors -- people who were national security officials in former Republican administrations -- who have told me they feel the same way. They fear that the administration’s policies are further endangering and undermining the security of the United States."