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Title: An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror by David Frum, Richard Perle ISBN: 1-4000-6194-6 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.8 (71 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: BOOK'S PLAN: SACRIFICE AMERICAN LIVES, SECURITY FOR ISRAEL
Comment: These men, both blatant Zionists whose main priority is Israel, suggest we go to war with the world so that Israel would be dominant in the Middle East. Not suprisingly, these men offer no end to the Palestinian plight. In these men's twisted world, countless lives of American soldiers not to mention civilians would be lost in a catastrophic battle that would ruin America's security forever. These extremists lied to get us into war with Iraq, so why would we start listening to them now?
Rating: 3
Summary: Simple-minded, but fun to read
Comment: These two fellows remind one of two other personalities who were extremely influential in the high and mighty places of Washington: Henry Morgenthau, US Treasury Secretary who was FDR's personal friend. In 1945 he advised the president to "pastoralize" Germany. FDR was sufficiently moved by the arguments of this best of friends to consent - only to wise up when his other advisers told him what this plan would mean (essentially, World War III in another generation). Truman would not even consider it.
The other was General MacArthur, who advocated nuclear bombing Chinese civilians to win the Korean War. Truman did not like the man, but the general was very popular at home. Had MacArthur got his way, perhaps World War III would not have been far off (though it's unclear how far Stalin would have gone risking his own skin to save Mao's). In any case, it would haven been truly immoral to kill millions of innocent Chinese lives to keep a tiny little-known peninsula from going Red.
Both Morgenthau and MacArthur were right-wing extremists who believed in force at all costs and under all circumstances regardless of consequences. My way or the highway. Take no prisoners. Go it alone. That was the thinking. Perle and Frum are the same, except that neither comes close to having the kind of private (in the case of Morgenthau) or public (in the case of MacArthur) influence that the old Jew and the old soldier had.
The dangerous thing about these two clowns is that their views are widely shared by the so-called neo-Cons in the Pentagon, from Rumsfeld on down. And clearly, Bush Jr and Cheney are Reaganites, thus very similar to neo-Cons. (One also have a sneaky suspicion that the authors' uncompromising pro-Israel and anti-Arab stance may have something to do with them being Jewish themselves. Is being on Israel's side 100% of the time vis-a-vis the Arabs really in America's interests in the long run?)
It's not that Perle and Frum taught the neo-Cons. It just happes that they articulate the same views held by the neo-Cons, who may or may not care for Perle and Frum. These two have appointed themselves to be their spokesmen. Everybody in the neo-Cons camp worship the same god though: Ronald Reagan.
Their views are forcefully and intelligently argued in this book, though they represent only one side of the debate. It would be interesting to see what would happen if they are put into practice - interesting, but not necessarily good for America or for the world. The reason why Morgenthau and MacArthur are not missed today is that their advice would have been disastrous for Americans and not just foreigners.
Is the new world so black and white as the one Reagan saw so correctly then? Or is it a little different now, so that a Reaganesque approach to foreign policy may backfire? Is America strong enough to persue its own interests without allies? Or is it because America is being abandoned by its allies that America must now watch out for itself alone? We'll see. This book provides clear answers to such questions. Whether you agree with the answers or not, they are at least clear.
Rating: 5
Summary: memri.org
Comment: Memri.org is a site that merely translates articles from their original arabic into english. I encourage people to visit the site and make up their own minds. This is a great book!
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Title: Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years by Rich Lowry ISBN: 0895261294 Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis ISBN: 0679642811 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Treason : Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism by Ann Coulter ISBN: 1400050308 Publisher: Crown Forum Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy by Robert Kagan, William Kristol ISBN: 1893554163 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror by Richard Miniter ISBN: 0895260743 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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