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American Heroes: In The Fight Against Radical Islam (2008)

by Oliver North(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0805447113 (ISBN13: 9780805447118)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

B&H Books

review 1: I enjoyed the re-telling of North's experiences overseas and his personal accounts with soldiers, but felt that the book should have stayed closer to what I expected when I read it: stories about the men and women fighting in the armed forces. I'm not saying that it is wrong to write about your political opinions, I just didn't expect to read about North's in a book by the title of "American Heroes."
review 2: "Their stories provide a somewhat different perspective than that offered by the mainstream media." This would be the theme of the book. A very postive (sometimes overly so) book based on Ollie North's experience being an embedded journalist. If I had to guess, I'd say he was hanging out with mostly Marines. Lots of pictures.There are a few endings t... moreo stories I would have liked to know (what caused the crash of Dash Two on 3/21/03, what happened to the 11 yr old Iraqi girl burned in a stove fire that we were able to treat)The glossary of Military acronyms is 4 pages long. What is the deal with the military and acronyms?? They can't just say Protective Gear, it has to be Mission-Oriented Protective Posture or MOPP. Not Car Bomb, but Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devise or VBIED.A good quote: "Americans don't fight for gold or oil or colonial conquest; we fight for an idea - liberty."And a good quip: "The French have always been there when they needed us."And some philosophy: "We love death - the Americans love life - that is the difference between us." Osama Bin LadenSome interesting things I learned: 70% of Afgan registered voters showed up for their 1st election. In USA congressional elections, fewer than 45% of those eligible vote. 58% of registered Iraqis voted in the first election, 62% in the second election and 70% in the third. It took 4 years for Germany and 7 years for Japan to assemble sovereign governments after WWII and there are 11 years in between our Declaration of Independance and the ratification of our Constitution. The Iraqi January 2005 election marked the first time in the entire 5,000 year history of Mesopotamia that every man and woman, regardless of tribe, religion, or ethnic origin, was allowed to cast a ballot. The main Terrorists in Iraq now are not Iraqis. They are fedayeen (paramilitary fighers from all over the Islamic world, mainly Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Algeria, Moracco, Yemen & Jordan). And Iranian technology is showing up frequently in IEDs. Altogether great antidote to the mainstream media's coverage of Iraq. less

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