Sport & Chess

Friday, March 14, 2008

Fighting the Wrong Foe With the Wrong Weapons

If readers thought Michael Scheuer, the former C.I.A. officer who headed the agency’s Osama bin Laden unit, was angry about the folly of the Iraq war in his 2004 book, “Imperial Hubris” (published under the byline “Anonymous”), then wait until they delve into his latest assessment of the war on terror: “Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq.” This scathing, wildly uneven and often intemperate work eviscerates not just the administrations of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, but also the entire foreign policy establishment, and it is filled with arguments sure to enrage just about everyone, including Republicans and Democrats, neo-conservatives and liberals, oil companies and international humanitarian organizations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/books/14book.html