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America and Islam After Iraq
Free Press
February 2008
On Sale: February 12, 2008
384 pages
ISBN: 0743299698
EAN: 9780743299695
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In Marching Toward Hell, Scheuer offers a scathing and
frightening look at how the Iraq war has contributed to the
enemy's strength and fundamentally changed the geopolitical
landscape in a way that is harmful to U.S. interests and
security concerns. Scheuer will examine the ways in which
the war has widened the conflict by almost every measure,
made America less secure, and increasingly vulnerable to
attack. What has the U.S. lost? Scheuer details how our various
actions have undermined the very things the U.S. was
fighting for, including: *The Iraq war has been a huge setback in the so-called "War
on Terrorism." Bin Laden and his allies have articulated
their goals viv-a-vis the U.S. as "bleed to bankruptcy" and
"spread U.S. forces and resources," and the war has brought
al-Qaeda a level of success that it could not have achieved
on its own. Moreover, Iraq will be unstable for the
foreseeable future and so, like Afghanistan, will harbor
Islamist training facilities. It also provides al-Qaeda and
its allies with what they most value: Contiguous safe haven
from which operations can be launched across borders into
countries which were previously difficult for them to reach. *The failure of the various investigative commissions to
find any individual culpable for anything in the wake of
9/11 and Iraq. WMD left in charge those who got America to
the twin disasters, while simultaneously creating a bigger,
more expensive, and less effective intelligence bureaucracy. *Unqualified U.S. support for Israel is involving her ever
more deeply in war with the Islamists without making Israel
any safer. What can be done now? Scheuer lays out exactly what needs to
be done to survive as a nation and a civilization, including: *The governing elite must tell the American people what is
now clearly the blatant truth: The U.S. is engaged in a
struggle against a worldwide force of Islamist fighters who
are motivated by the perceived threat to their religion and
brethren from U.S. foreign policies and their
implementation. The U.S. must recognize that the Islamists
are religiously motivated: So long as Americans and their
leaders believe the Islamists are motivated by poverty, bad
education, poor job prospects, ambitions denied, rudimentary
health care, and other such social and economic factors,
they will lethally underestimate the enemy. Americans must
be told repeatedly and until they are convinced that this is
a war for national survival. *Close the land and sea borders tight and insure that all
entry is legal and funneled through official checkpoints.
This is the single most important action the U.S. government
can take to protect its citizens, society, and economy. *Secure the nuclear arsenal of the former Soviet Union (FSU)
no matter the resources required to do so. It is a clear
case of criminal negligence by our recent presidents that
the FSU arsenal is unsecured. *Change the foreign policies that have been in place and
unchanged toward the Islamic world for thirty years and more. *Recognize that the aggressive use of U.S. military power
will be an indispensable tool to annihilate those Islamists
who do not choose to refocus their energies on reshaping
their own world. Americans can no longer fool themselves
into believing in the possibility of "limited wars" and
"bloodless wars." After 20+ years as a senior CIA officer, Scheuer has the
knowledge and expertise to tell the American public what it
needs to know. As a frightened and frustrated individual who
has had enough of bureaucratic ineptness and bipartisan
politicking, he has the courage to sound this critical alarm
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