Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq Audiobook (Free)
- Michael Scheuer
- 6 h 31 min
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2008-02-12
Summary:
When Michael Scheuer first questioned the goals of the Iraq War in his 2004 bestseller Imperial Hubris, policymakers and common citizens alike stood up and took notice. Now, Scheuer offers a scathing and frightening look at the way the Iraq War is a huge setback to America’s War on Terror, producing our enemy stronger and changing the geopolitical landscaping with techniques that are profoundly harmful to U.S. passions and security issues.
Marching Toward Hell is not just another strike over the about Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq Bush administration. Rather, it noises a critical security alarm that must definitely be heard in order to preserve the country’s security. Scheuer outlines the ways that America’s foreign policy since the end of the Cool War has undermined the goals that we are fighting and performed directly into bin Laden’s hands. The ongoing instability in Iraq, for example, has provided al Qaeda and its own allies with the thing they want most: a secure haven that to launch functions across borders into countries that were previously difficult for them to reach. With U.S. makes and resources pass on thinner each day, the battle has depleted our strength and brought al Qaeda some sort of achievement that it could not have attained on its own.
A twenty-plus-year CIA veteran, Scheuer going the agency’s Osama bin Laden device, handled its covert-action operations, and authored its rendition plan. Scheuer spent his career developing strategies to keep America safe, at all deemed necessary with the presidents he offered. It had been his job to take available cleverness and devise programs to protect Americans, without taking into consideration bias, position, as well as existing alliances. In Marching Toward Hell, Scheuer assumes the questions of ‘What proceeded to go incorrect?’ and ‘How can we repair this?’ and proposes a plan to cauterize the damage that has recently been performed and get American strategy back again on the right track. He lists a number of painful tips for how we must shift our ideological, military, and political views to be able to survive, actually if that means disagreeing with Israeli policy or launching even more brutal campaigns against terrorists.
America retains its future in its hands, Scheuer says, however not nearly enough continues to be done to defend America and destroy its Islamist foes. That is an eye- opening, alarming, contentious, and eventually fascinating examination of what lengths off track the Battle on Terror has truly gone, and a crucial browse in understanding what we must do to save it.
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