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Hardcover The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right Book

ISBN: 0805079416

ISBN13: 9780805079418

The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror And a Strategy for Getting It Right

The authors of the bestseller The Age of Sacred Terror show how the United States is losing the war on terror and what we need to do if we're serious about winning it. We are losing. Four years and two wars after September 11, 2001, the United States is no closer to victory in the "war on terror." In fact, we are unwittingly clearing the way for the next attack.In this provocative new book, Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon show how the terrorist threat is evolving, with a broadening array of tactics, an army of new fighters and, most ominously, a widening base of support in the global Muslim community. The jihadist movement has been galvanized by the example of 9/11 and the missteps of the U.S. government, which has consistently failed to understand the nature of the new terror. Left on this trajectory, much worse faces us in the near future.It doesn't have to be this way. The Next Attack makes the case that America has the capacity to stem the tide of Islamic terrorism, but Benjamin and Simon caution that this will require a far-reaching and creative new strategy, one that recognizes that the struggle has been over-militarized and that a campaign for reform must be more than rhetoric and less than bayonets. And they point out how America's increasing tendency to frame the conflict in religious terms has undermined our ability to advance our interests.Is America is truly equipped to do what is necessary to combat Islamist terrorism, or are we too blinded by our own ideology? The answer to that question will determine how secure we will truly be, in the years and decades to come.

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Rated 5 stars
Perceptions and Reality

The central core of this book is that the United States is 'losing' the War on Terror because, in a nutshell, the Bush Administration has no concept of either the enemy or the war that the US is actually involved in. The War that the US is fighting is actually aiding and abetting the real foe - Militant Islam. Bush and his administration are fighting 'states' so the US invades Iraq and Afghanistan - set piece battles that...

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Indispensable reading

A sober but devastating critique of the Bush administration's failures in combatting/prosecuting/preventing terrorism.

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Rated 4 stars
This well-researched book offers a chance for real security

This well-researched book faults the Bush administration leading up to and after 9/11. When the authors state something they have the sense to them promptly cite where they received statistics and other data making their claim. They want this book to present their own case to the readers. The authors argue that the United States has ultimately fed our Islamic opponents by being in Iraq. It wasn't just our recent stumblings...

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Another Attack

Here in New York, where you could literally taste the World Trade Center in your mouth for weeks and it seemed everybody had a harrowing story to tell, I noticed that people adopted one of several strategies for coping with their shock and grief. Some bolted into action, working on relief, recovery or joining the Coast Guard. Others withdrew into the trivia of normal, everyday life. A third group, which included myself,...

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Extremely Good Overview and Bracing Thoughtful Critique

I am very surprised to not see other reviews of this book. While it lacks the intimate detail and the passion of Richard Clarke's book, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, it is the first book I have found in the years since 9/11 that satisfactorily reviews the bidding, provides a polite but hard-hitting critique of all we are doing wrong, and ends with reasonable recommendations for future action--recommendations...

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