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Title: Unfinished Business: Afghanistan, the Middle East and Beyond--Defusing the Dangers That Threatenamerica's Security by Harlan Ullman, John S. McCain ISBN: 0-8065-2431-6 Publisher: Citadel Trade Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Recent History from an Insider
Comment: Three things made me buy the book without hesitation; John McCain's introduction, the endorsements by current leaders of our country, and the mention of Afghanistan. What I found in reading it was a fine review of events of the last twenty years by an insider with his notes of conversations with the principals. For anyone who read the New York Times or a similar newspaper daily, and watched a bit of news in the evening, it was so much repitition. The bit on Afghanistan was miniscule. It is, however, a fine read for those not inclined to the daily news.
Rating: 2
Summary: Hindu, not Hindi!
Comment: While the book is quite interesting to read, as an Indian I found glaring errors vis-a-vis my country - India. The author refers to people in India as Hindi! Hindi is one of the widely spoken languages of India and usually is not refered to her people! The author probably means Hindu, instead of Hindi. The word Hindu is used by many to identify people of India, but, in general the word is used to identify those people of India who do not follow any of the semitic religions. (Unless, the author took the word from poet Iqbal- Pakistan's national poet- who does refer to people of the subcontinent as "hindi" in his patriotic poem "saare jahan se acchha". But, when he wrote the poem when we - today's Indians, Pakistanis and Bangla Deshis- were all Hindi!)
Although the book is not about India-Pak history I would still like to comment that the part on Indo-Pak history is too simplistic. I am afraid policies based on such simplistic ideas would be only counter-productive. The people of India and Pak share more history and heritage than that is written in this book.
However the book is worth reading and is interesting.
Rating: 5
Summary: Insight in a Time of Crisis
Comment: This is a sweeping examination of the world scene that moves easily from analysis to tough recommendations.
If you want to put current questions about what is happening around the world into context, especially questions about the source and role of global terror, Unfinished Business is a book well worth reading. Its author, Harlan Ullman, has inner-office access to both Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; indeed he has had access to most of the leaders of the last two decades. In Unfinished Business, he not only focuses on the likely need for the current President Bush to finish what his father surprisingly left undone in the Gulf War. More importantly, Ullman also focuses on America's -- indeed western civilization's true and more profound unfinished business: spurring strong economic and social/political progress around the globe. This Ullman sees as the fundamental means of eradicating most of the sources and causes of terror.
On the way to discussing the need for global growth, Ullman also suggests we pay more attention to our own homeland security system, lest the unfinished business that gets finished first is another attack on the United States. Ullman?s view is that our openness makes us very vulnerable and that upsetting the U.S. economy is a principle objective of bin Laden and his followers.
As Under Secretary of the Navy from 1997 through 2000, I often met with Harlan Ullman to discuss defense policy. Like his book, his insights were always tough-minded and worthy of thought and action.
With a foreword by Senator John McCain, this book should be read by anyone who now plays, or hopes to play a guiding role in America in the next decade. If you are leading a "great issues / great decisions" study group in your local community, I would highly recommend Unfinished Business as a way to inform and excite minds that are eager to learn more about world affairs.
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Title: A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin ISBN: 0805068848 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror by David Frum, Richard Perle ISBN: 1400061946 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security by Grant Tedrick Hammond ISBN: 1560989416 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Imperial America : The Bush Assault on the World Order by John Newhouse ISBN: 0375414010 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan ISBN: 1400040930 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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