Recommended book on GWOT- Particularly War in Iraq

[Don Kiyoti]

Stizzealth wrote:
In the waning days of the Bush administration, each and every American owes it to their country to figure out just what is going on in the Global War on Terror. Douglas J. Feith, the former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, has written a honest history absolutely without rancor and generalizations. This is not a tome praising each and every facet of Bush administration policy, but rather explaining the important people and ideas behind administration policy. This is not the typical Washington memoir, chock-a-block full of theory, hearsay, and conspiracy theories. This is a history book.

War and Decision

Having read the book, I can attest to its literary quality. His arguments are succinctly and clearly explained in 530 pages of fluent prose and 140 more pages of documentation, sourcing, and an index. This is a must-read for anyone desirous of separating the facts from the media spin about the Global War on Terror and the absolute necessity of its conception and continuation.

ageofpericles.blogspot.com

Ooh! An index! Book must be really truthy!

Bullshit. Feith is one of the neocons who helped devise the "strategy" behind the war on terror. How do you think the book is without bias or spin?

[Wags]

Don Kiyoti wrote:
[quote=Stizzealth]
In the waning days of the Bush administration, each and every American owes it to their country to figure out just what is going on in the Global War on Terror. Douglas J. Feith, the former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, has written a honest history absolutely without rancor and generalizations. This is not a tome praising each and every facet of Bush administration policy, but rather explaining the important people and ideas behind administration policy. This is not the typical Washington memoir, chock-a-block full of theory, hearsay, and conspiracy theories. This is a history book.

War and Decision



Having read the book, I can attest to its literary quality. His arguments are succinctly and clearly explained in 530 pages of fluent prose and 140 more pages of documentation, sourcing, and an index. This is a must-read for anyone desirous of separating the facts from the media spin about the Global War on Terror and the absolute necessity of its conception and continuation.

ageofpericles.blogspot.com

Ooh! An index! Book must be really truthy!

Bullshit. Feith is one of the neocons who helped devise the "strategy" behind the war on terror. How do you think the book is without bias or spin?
But... we owe it to our country! Did I mention every American? Or at least the real ones.

[Dennis S]

I'm torn on this. On the one hand, you have Stizzealth. On the other hand, General Tommy Franks. Who to believe. Who to believe.

[Dennis S]

"His arguments are succinctly and clearly explained in 530 pages ..."

Succinctly? 530 pages?

[Ted King]

Dennis S wrote:
"His arguments are succinctly and clearly explained in 530 pages ..."

Succinctly? 530 pages?

I haven't read the book but I'll bet I can put it succinctly. Feith: We might have made some mistakes in our implementation (it is all very complicated, you know, so some mistakes were inevitable) but we were right in principle.

The admission of "possibly having made some mistakes" will be taken by conservatives as a sign of objectivity - basically ignoring the fact that he was wrong on a great many of the larger aspects of the situation; e.g., that Iraq was the central front in the conflict with international terrorists. But his rationalizations will help conservatives keep alive the illusion that they pursued what was fundamentally the right approach even if the implementation was "less than perfect".

[Mac1337]

Don Kiyoti wrote:
[quote=Stizzealth]
In the waning days of the Bush administration, each and every American owes it to their country to figure out just what is going on in the Global War on Terror. Douglas J. Feith, the former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, has written a honest history absolutely without rancor and generalizations. This is not a tome praising each and every facet of Bush administration policy, but rather explaining the important people and ideas behind administration policy. This is not the typical Washington memoir, chock-a-block full of theory, hearsay, and conspiracy theories. This is a history book.

War and Decision

Having read the book, I can attest to its literary quality. His arguments are succinctly and clearly explained in 530 pages of fluent prose and 140 more pages of documentation, sourcing, and an index. This is a must-read for anyone desirous of separating the facts from the media spin about the Global War on Terror and the absolute necessity of its conception and continuation.

ageofpericles.blogspot.com

Ooh! An index! Book must be really truthy!

Bullshit. Feith is one of the neocons who helped devise the "strategy" behind the war on terror. How do you think the book is without bias or spin?
Here you go again. It is not war on terror, it is "war on terror". Jeeze. You folks are disappointing me.

[OWC Jamie]

toldyaso

[Stizzealth]

He's got a lot of argument to make.

As for the book report, I've already read it. I think you can probably actually read the text yourself, sans book report.

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Jon Stewart cut old Doug to ribbons with soft balls.

[lafinfil]

Stizzealth wrote:
He's got a lot of argument to make.

As for the book report, I've already read it. I think you can probably actually read the text yourself, sans book report.

I think it's more along the lines of he has a lot of back pedaling to do.

It's hard to believe that the neocons cling to guys like Feith, Perle, Wolfowitz when thay all have proven to be
such tremendous liars and continue to be self delusional. Don't take my word for it - look at all the lefty liberals
that I quoted (and those were some of the nicer ones)

Any of these that you want to dispute ? I'm sure Rummy & Scooter have some nice things to say.