Volume 53, Number 19 · November 30, 2006
How Terrible Is It?
By Max Rodenbeck
The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (September 2002)
National Security Council, 35 pp., available at www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html
The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (March 2006)
National Security Council, 54 pp., available at www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss/2006
What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat
by Louise Richardson
Random House, 312 pp., $25.95
Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them
by John Mueller
Free Press, 259 pp., $25.00
Winning the Un-War: A New Strategy for the War on Terrorism
by Charles Peña
Potomac, 241 pp., $27.95
Five years after George Bush launched America on a global crusade to 'rid the world of evil,' it is safe to say that the tide has turned. No, America is not winning, although some argue that it might be politic, at this juncture, to declare victory.[1] Nor is America necessarily losing, as others have asserted. What has happened instead is that the mental construct that framed the Bush administration's reaction to September 11 as a 'war' is beginning to fall apart.
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