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The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 | List Price: $15.00
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Binding: Paperback
Good book, unfortunately nothing new [Posted on 2008-04-29]
Ron Suskind is excellent and The Price of Loyalty was a great book. I found that The One Percent Doctrine was a bit late to the party in that I had read most of this in previous texts on the same topic.
Maybe I'm oversaturated with material in this area and this would serve as a good primer for those that haven't already explored the War on Terror, post 9/11 books.
Some of the anecdotes were presented in a cartoonish way and the moral of the story is redundant at this point, i.e. Bush administration is secretive and flawed in a big way.
Insider Info [Posted on 2008-05-02]
Interesting look at the "cheney doctrine". If interetsed in the 9/11 story give this a listen.
Interesting behind the scenes read [Posted on 2008-05-12]
I bought this book for a read on a long flight and found it very engaging. If you've ever been curious to get a better sense of what was happening behind the veil of government secrecy during the time after 9/11, this will go pretty far in satisfying that curiousity.
overall, very good book [Posted on 2008-07-30]
I know this book has been out there for a couple of years, but I just read it a week or so ago.
I especially was intrigued by the author's argument the decision to invade Iraq was made in late 2001, if not before.
I suspect the invasion of Iraq would have occurred even if 9/11 had not happened.
The administration seized upon 9/11, disingenuously conflating it with Iraq.
Such was the obsession within this administration, especially its neocons, on having the United States in a unipolar world assume a far more aggressive role in remaking Muslim societies to more nearly comport with our notions of what is proper.
Iraq was to be merely the first installment on this process.
Arrogance?
I'll say.
The One Percent Solution [Posted on 2008-08-05]
This is a disappointing book on many levels. I read the book during research for my Ph.D. dissertation but concluded it lacks the academic rigor to be a credible source. The author's documentation of sources consisted of a short paragraph in the back, stating his book was based on substantial interviews and documents, but fails to reveal them. Hence, readers cannot scrutinize his evidence or the basis for his conclusions. One might conclude that the book is based on one percent research.
I was surprised to learn from the book that the United States supplies Israel with tanks, tanks which kill women and children. Had the author bothered to check, he would have discovered that the Merkava tank is Israeli-manufactured. The emotive reference to inadvertent deaths of noncombatants is callow at best. The error may be minor, but if the author is wrong on basic knowledge, how dependable is the rest of the book? One might conclude that the book is based on one percent facts.
The book purports one assertion after another using weak evidence and weaker logic. The author claims that the failure of al Qaeda to launch subsequent attacks on the United States is not due to American vigilance or counter-actions, but because al Qaeda chose not to. The author suggests that Vice President Cheney is running the war effort, not President Bush, and that all national security decisions are based on the slight possibility of a threat materializing, hence the One Percent Doctrine. One might conclude the book is based on one percent logic.
Many of the author's accounts regarding the run up to the Iraq War are simply a regurgitation of Seymour Hersh's Chain of Command, but not as detailed. Perhaps Mr. Hersh was one of the author's sources. One might conclude the book is one percent personal effort.
The reader must endure numerous platitudes of the President not being a reader or the Director of the CIA being a back-slapper, and other attempts by the author to appear clever. Rather than attempt to analyze why certain national security decisions were made or the constraints placed on the Administration regarding the prosecution of the War on Terror, the author chose to sensationalize events using one percent hindsight.
In short, this book was one hundred percent a waste of my valuable research time.
Lieutenant Colonel Raymond Millen (Ret).
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