Imperial Hubris

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Imperial Hubris – Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror

Book Contents

Some Thoughts on the Power of Focused, Principled Hatred 1
2. An Unprepared and Ignorant Lunge to Defeat—The UnitedStates in Afghanistan 21
3. Not Down, Not Out: Al Qaeda’s Resiliency, Expansion, andMomentum 59
4. The World’s View of bin Laden: A Muslim Leader and HeroComing into Focus? 103
5. Bin Laden Views the World: Some Old, Some New, and aTwist 127
6. Blinding Hubris Abounding: Inflicting Defeat on
Ourselves—Non-War, Leaks, and Missionary Democracy 163
7. When the Enemy Sets the Stage: How America’s Stubborn
Obtuseness Aids Its Foes 209
8. The Way Ahead: A Few Suggestions for Debate 237Notes 265
Select Bibliography 291
Index 299
The Author

Even by the standards of the terrorists involved,” Robert Baer wrote in his valuable book, See No Evil, “the scale of assault [on 11 September 2001] was unimaginable.

The point, though, is that we didn’t even try to find out what was headed our way.”

Mr. Baer’s book is the engaging and often suspenseful story of an excellent field intelligence officer. It has the field operative’s savvy and swagger, and the comprehensiveness of a world traveler’s view.

Still, Mr. Baer’s above conclusion is incorrect.

Not only was the scale of the 11 September attack imaginable, but Mr. Baer and other U.S. intelligence officers—

often at the risk of their lives—had spent most of a decade gathering and analyzing the intelligence that, had it been used fully and honestly, would have allowed all U.S. leaders and, indeed, all Americans to know what sort of storm was approaching.

Those officers knew a runaway train was coming at the United States, documented that fact, and then watched helplessly—or were banished for speaking out—

as their senior leaders delayed action, downplayed intelligence, ignored repeated warnings, and generally behaved as what they so manifestly are, America’s greatest generation—of moral cowards.

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