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

We are better than you; Our God is Better Than Your God; Your way-of-life does not compare with the grandiose success of Our Idea of Making It In The World. Now of course that may be true (I certainly believe it--what "self-indulgent" American wouldn't, living in a general luxury, internal economic issues and poverty notwithstanding in a broader, civilizationwise comparison "The present generation have hit the civilization jackpot!" to subtextualize a statement another great patriot, Bill Mahar, made in his own hilarious, logically argued screed. This is a very accurate statement, I believe, one that marvels at the ease of our comfort, and the freedom to mostly avoid a random, roving fear threatening to break in outside of our own family environment.

Most folks in the Middle East have got hard lives. A history of 800 generations scaping the level of survival, madmen and billionaire tyrants laughing while turning a whole nation into their ideas of a pornographic pleasuredome; or worse--do-gooder foreigners who tell civilizations what the true way of living is; who is their True God, ultimately daring to insult the only clinging belief that has kept so many of these desperate people dreaming of a future.

Belief is the forerunner of reality. Some leader of some nation makes their dreams come true with an imposed Rapture based on some Organized Gospel's nearing-the-end tale. The author of this book, feeling insulted by the arrogance and presumption of a band of fanatical anarchists (for reforming civilization in a twinkling image is always an act of utter chaos, whether Wonderland Afterlife or the faintest hint of a coming Democracy), he has turned around and spat back in the radicals' faces: "Oh yeah?", he seems to be saying, breathing with a huff, stamping his feet in a growing rage, "Well I say we're gonna use our wealth and use all our opportunities and shove it down your throats and then rattle you until you submit, killing anyone who doesn't swear that our way is best for you--!"

Honestly, is that any way to talk to someone whom we have just forced our way into the problems of with the honest, initial intention of actually trying to help? The Equal and Opposite fanaticism of the author is a very telling flaw, stating the hypocrisy of his argument and thereby making him nothing more than another raving fanatic, no matter the political persuasion.

Ledeen is no different than the PNACers who are running our foreign policy these days. They all are simply incapapble of getting it, so they are all incapable of offering a way to fix it, too. Terrorism is a social, economic, and political issue with security consequences. Addressing one dimension of one of the causes (political) with the simplistic and ineffective notion of regime change is farcical. Address all three or stay at home.