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1.American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam (War Stories) by: Oliver North May 01, 2008
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Oliver North rises from the ashes of disgrace to talk about war heroes - what a joke. Are people's memories so short that they forget about Mr. North's illegal war that he headed in attempts to get rid of the Sandanista government in Nicaragua? Ollie is part of a long line of brain washed military geeks who buy the line that America is supposed to be the world's policeman. Except for America's involvement in WW11 almost every military campaign has been a mis-adventure - a BLOWBACK of foreign policy. Its the USA foreign policy that has triggered the rise of radical Islam. If they had pulled their base from Saudi Arabia after the Gulf War which the clerics had asked them too, (however they ignored) there would have no reaction by the Islamic clerics. A better title might have been: Black ... Read More

2.Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad by: Andrew C. McCarthy April 14, 2008
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Ohmygosh, I just read this on the train and I'm glad I was moving when I did. I share friendships with many journalists who are not "liberals" with "agendas," both in the US, the UK and South Asia (India and Pakistan). My impression of Andy's book is that it lay somewhere on the continuum between Vincent Bugliosi's iconic memoir and analysis of the Manson case, "Helter Skelter," and Cracker Jack candy and gorp-entertainment for the right-wingers to gobble up. I will say that Andy is somewhat successful at avoiding the usual prosecutor/police procedural trope and heroics, yet the plunge in the other end of the pool without the float of context and analysis, and tossing away ideology, is a bit weird. It's almost a bugle call to arms against an evil empire of classic Hollywood vintage. Or perhaps ... Read More

3.War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism by: Douglas J. Feith April 08, 2008
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Logic and facts did not stop the Bush administration from looking for connections. Vice President Cheney promoted a theory that Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was really an Iraqi doppelganger who had assumed Yousef's identity. The administration circulated as authentic a raw intelligence report, apparently from an alcoholic and discredited agent, that had the September 11 mastermind, Mohamed Atta, meeting with an Iraqi embassy official in Prague in 2000. (There is no evidence that Atta went to Prague.) Not satisfied with the conclusions of the intelligence professionals at the CIA and his own Defense Intelligence Agency, Secretary Rumsfeld set up the Office of Special Plans, staffed by ideologically vetted political appointees and reporting to Under Secretary ... Read More

4.Terror and Consent : The Wars for the Twenty-First Century by: Philip Bobbitt April 01, 2008
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The study of terrorism as both a reality and as a philosophy has generated a voluminous literature in the past decade, most of this no doubt because of the terrorist attacks against the United States in 2001. Whenever a country like the United States is victim to an attack, whether it is classified as terrorism or not, it is safe to say that a lot of grandiose rhetoric, patriotic fervor, and an excess of moralizing will result. Such activities may serve as a catharsis, but in the long run one needs an intelligent, rational discussion of terrorism, so as to discover which institutional and individual changes must be made in order to deal with it effectively. And when entering into this discussion, one must be prepared to examine the evidence and arguments carefully, and be willing to put aside to the ... Read More

5.Party of Defeat by: David Horowitz, Ben Johnson April 01, 2008
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One star rating for ability to actually get it published. Interesting read if not only to see how facts can be sophmorically, selectived, presented, distorted and ignored to support a thesis. Calculative misuse and abuse of facts. In his book, David Horowitz provides an unsound scathing review of the Democratic Party in what he believes is the failure of the same to march in lockstep with the deceiptful, criminal and unpatriotic behavior of the Bush Administration, the Commander in Chief, and the Republican Party. Rather than filter one's views through the concepts that made this country and the people of this so country great - love, respect, compassion, a willingness by most to understand one another and seek common ground, his views revolve around how if a person challenges ... Read More

6.Brotherhood of Warriors: Behind Enemy Lines with a Commando in One of the World's Most Elite Counterterrorism Units by: Aaron Cohen, Douglas Century April 29, 2008
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This book tells an an astonishing story of an 18 year old who gave up the option of the "good life" in Los Angeles to pursue some of the most difficult training and dangerous counter terror missions imaginable. (Look for the scene of Cohen going undercover to meet a terrorist big shot in a Jerusalem cafe.) It's a fast-paced, exciting memoir, one of the best I've read in years. Once I started, I couldn't put it down. Highly recommended to anyone interested in current affairs, counter terrorism and national security.

7.Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by: Steve Coll December 28, 2004
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Very much an in-depth history of our times. This book describes activities that were lightly or never reported in the news yet had and have extreme bearing on US policy and current conditions in the Middle East. Well researched book with lengthy reference list.

8.The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage) by: Lawrence Wright August 21, 2007
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It's encouraging that this is the #1 book on the topic of 9/11 in Amazon. It deserves to be. Not content with depicting the terrible events of 9/11, Wright brilliantly and logically draws out the origins of the nihilist religious movement that formed the ideological motor of 9/11. The roots of 9/11 are twofold: in the writings of Egyptian expatriate Sayyid Qutb, who ironically wrote his most inflammatory works while an academic guest in Colorado (some of Qutb's works form the Mein Kampf of Islamic extremism); and the toxic Wahhabi Muslim sect in Saudi Arabia. When you finish the chapters on these topics, you will thoroughly understand the repellent underpinnings of Saudi-specific culture, which in fact have very little to do with the humane face of Islam. Obviously, the central figure in this book is ... Read More

9.The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by: Sam Harris October 10, 2005
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Sam Harris has the enormous talent and knowledge to clearly write what atheists and agnostics think and feel. He makes a strong case as to the strong link among intolerance and religion, perhaps even pointing at a new way to understand history, and particularly war and murder. Another venue of his clear presentation is the lack of evidence of the existence of god, any god. Our societies have built enormours superstructures of thought based on no evidence whatsoever. The consecuences are dire, limiting our abilities to create better more equal societies, and certainly less intolerant to others beliefs. I think this book is a breakthough.

10.Crush the Cell: How to Defeat Terrorism Without Terrorizing Ourselves by: Michael A. Sheehan May 06, 2008
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Full Disclosure: I have known Mike Sheehan for over 20 years and think highly of him. Did you ever wonder just what those Homeland Security color codes mean? If you read Sheehan's book, you will know you can stop caring about them. This is the book that helps you understand how a small group of dedicated men have so damaged and befuddled us and how we can defeat them without destroying the fabric of our lives. Sheehan discards the pedantic in favor of the practical. He is prescriptive without pretense. He explains why he thinks Hezbollah has not struck outside the Middle East in years, but admits he does not know if or when they might reach across the seas again. Michael Sheehan has hit the balance point. He makes it clear that the terrorists dangerous and can do terrible ... Read More

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