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Osama Bin Laden (2011)

by Michael Scheuer(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0199738661 (ISBN13: 9780199738663)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

review 1: Fascinating! We really get inside bin Laden's mind. The details of his life are very important and relevant in order to learn how he developed his radical beliefs and his motives for violent jihad. While his actions were completely inexcusable, I see the direction he is coming from. Many of his perceptions of America I strongly disagree with. However, this new and accurate description of bin Laden has changed my perspective of him. The villains in history have never seen themselves as evil, but heroes instead. Osama bin Laden was a perfect example.
review 2: Whether as man or myth, arguably no one since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has more profoundly affected American daily life than Osama bin Laden. As author Michael Scheuer argues cogently in his new b... moreiography of bin Laden, since his formal declaration of war against the United States in 1996, bin Laden has deliberately drawn America into armed conflicts of varying durations but substantial costs in Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Since past is present's prologue, likely bin Laden will goad further American military action in the turmoils currently roiling north Africa and the Middle East. Using a plethora of authoritative sources, including most importantly the words and writings of bin Laden himself, Scheuer demonstrates that bin Laden attempts these manipulations to lure America into ruinous wars where victory is ever elusive but the prolonged loss of American blood and treasure is assured. In this concise and well-written book, former chief of the CIA's bin Laden unit Scheuer presents a compelling argument that American political, military and media leaders are engaged in mortal combat with a fabricated enemy of their own creation and preference, instead of with bin Laden himself. Scheuer's book is a valiant effort to present bin Laden the man, rather than the phantasm he's become in many American minds. Only when America understands the man and his true motives, strengths and limitations, says Scheuer, can America engage and defeat bin Laden in realistic and definitive terms. As America finds itself mired in the second decade of a multi-front Al Qaeda War bin Laden began during the Clinton administration, Scheuer's book should be mandatory reading both for anyone curious why this war rages on without seeming end, and for American politicians and generals eager to fight the enemy they have, rather than the one they imagine. less

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