The War Against the Terror Masters: Why It Happened, Where We Are Now, How We'll Win [Anglais] [Broché]

This occasionally simplistic polemic calls for a "revolutionary war" on the "coherent terror network" organized by the governments of Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the "driving force behind international terrorism," Iran. Ledeen, a member of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute and a former National Security Council consultant, persuasively details the links between these regimes and terrorist groups, and castigates previous presidents (particularly the "corrupt" and "self-indulgent" Bill Clinton) for discounting the terrorist threat and tolerating the complacency and bungling of U. S. intelligence agencies. His unnuanced theory of terrorism, however-the "terror masters" are "tyrants" who loathe America because of its mere "existence" as a symbol of freedom-downplays political complexities and ignores America's tarnished record in the Middle East. And while Ledeen urges the United States to help the citizens of terrorist states overthrow their despotic rulers, he warns that to do so-i.e., to be ready for war-Americans must give up their faith in "radical egalitarianism" and "the perfectibility of man" in favor of Machiavellian principles ("The only important thing is winning"; "It is better to be feared than loved"). Some readers will applaud Ledeen's hard-nosed demand to "reconcile our democratic values with the necessity of imposing our will," but others may think the compromise too great.
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"Sometimes controversial, often provocative, always informative and insightful."—Bernard Lewis, author of What Went Wrong?, The Middle East, and The Arabs in History

The War Against the Terror Masters explains in startling detail how and why the United States was unprepared for the September 11th catastrophe; the nature of the terror network we are fight-ing; the role of radical Islam; the enemy collaboration of some of our Middle Eastern 'allies'; and what we must do to win the war. Examining all aspects of the war, including the rise of the international terror network, Ledeen's book also visits countries in the Near East and describes the terrorist cells in each. Among the books revelations are: how the terror network survived the loss of its main sponsor, the Soviet Union; how the FBI learned from a KGB defector-twenty years before Osama bin Laden's murderous assault-of the existence of terrorist sleeper networks inside the United States; and much more.

Michael A. Ledeen, a noted political analyst and highly knowledgeable about the Near East, is a resident scholar at the American Enterprises Institute. He is the author of Machiavelli on Modern Leadership and Tocqueville on American Character. A contributer to The Wall Street Journal, he lives and works in Washington, D.C.