{"product_id":"trapped-in-the-war-on-terror-hardback-9780812239836","title":"Trapped in the War on Terror (Hardback) 9780812239836","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTrapped in the War on Terror\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIan S. Lustick (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812239836\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 September 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.468 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Ian Lustick has written a brave, forceful, and very valuable book. I wish that every politician promising to 'defend' America would read what he has to say. Failing that, the voters should.\" (James Fallows, National Correspondent, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e) \"Ian Lustick's excellent book presents in an engaging and most intelligent manner a point of view that should be far more widely considered. It brings the problem of terrorism, such as it is, back down to earth and deftly skewers the large political, economic, and media industry that has an interest in exaggerating terrorism's effect and in scaring people unnecessarily. I recommend the book highly.\" (John Mueller, Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University) \"A must and timely read for all who worry that we are trapped in a self-defeating strategy. Lustick courageously swims against the within-beltway wisdom by raising the question whether the U.S. government treatment of counterterrorism is worse than the disease itself.\" (Marc Sageman, author of \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Terror Networks\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first principle of terrorism is to understand that the weak win by exploiting the strength of the powerful. When 9\/11 terrorists with box cutters hijacked American airliners, they transformed America's preeminent transportation system into a devastating weapon of attack. They also set a trap with the promise of revenge and security as the bait. The hijackers' biggest victory was to goad our government into taking the bait by unleashing the War on Terror. The worry, witch-hunt, and waste that have ensued are, according to Ian S. Lustick, destroying American confidence, undermining our economy, warping our political life, and isolating us from our international allies.\u003cbr\u003e The media have given constant attention to possible terrorist-initiated catastrophes and to the failures and weaknesses of the government's response. \u003ci\u003eTrapped in the War on Terror\u003c\/i\u003e, however, questions the very rationale for the War on Terror. By analyzing the virtual absence of evidence of a terrorist threat inside the United States along with the motives and strategic purposes of al-Qaeda, Lustick shows how disconnected the War on Terror is from the real but remote threat terrorism poses. He explains how the generalized War on Terror began as part of the justification for invading Iraq, but then took on a life of its own. A whirlwind of fear, failure, and recrimination, this \"war\" drags every interest group and politician, he argues, into selfish competition for its spoils.\u003cbr\u003e Facing the threat of nuclear incineration during the Cold War, America overcame panic about nonexistent communist sleeper cells poised to destroy the country, a panic fueled by the destructive hysteria of McCarthyism. Through careful analysis of the Soviet threat, the nation managed to sustain a productive national life and achieve victory, despite the terrifying daily possibility of catastrophe. This book is inspired by that success. It points the way forward, not toward victory in the War on Terror but to victory over it. The first and most difficult step toward that victory is to know the enemy. In large measure, as \u003ci\u003eTrapped in the War on Terror\u003c\/i\u003e shows, that means understanding how al-Qaeda is making us our own worst enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Imperative of Triage\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Perceptions of the Terrorist Threat\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Measuring the Terrorist Threat: What Is the Evidence?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Cabal, the Invasion of Iraq, and the Origins of the War on Terror\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The War on Terror Whirlwind\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Freeing America from the War on Terror\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555709808920,"sku":"9780812239836","price":36.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/trapped-in-the-war-on-terror-hardback-9780812239836","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}