Micheal Scheuer Though our Enemies eyes.
I caught him on CSPAN hawking his newest book, and was intrigued by what he said, so I went to Amazon and bought all three of his books.
I sort of regret it now. The book is hard to read (small print) and I can only take it in small chunks so it will take a long time for me to read it. It is also hard to read because parts of it just make little sense to someone not immersed in Islamic culture.
I think the guy has a lot of good things to say, but he needs to find a way to say it in a way that the average reader can understand.
His basic premise seems to be that OBL is the Thomas Jefferson of Islam today, and Islam hates us because we have troops in Saudi Arabia and support Israel. So far the book has not offered any solutions to the OBL problem, although on CSPAN he did say killing OBL is a good idea, so at least we agree on that.
I am pretty sure he has some good insight into the OBL problem, as he was the head of the CIA OBL unit until 2004.
I have only read perhaps 5% of the book. It takes a long time when you can only read it 4 or 5 pages at a time.
Incidentally, the version I bought (revised edition) is apparently what he originally wrote, with a small amount of added material. The preface indicated that whole chapters and a lot of material was removed from the original to reduce the number of pages to make it more economical to publish.
