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America and Islam After Iraq
Free Press
February 2008
On Sale: February 12, 2008
384 pages
ISBN: 0743299698
EAN: 9780743299695
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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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