By misfiring, the author shows his true colors. The author claims to understand the motives and reasoning of the major players. While several chapters do offer valuable insights, overall, the book is a mine field.

Is guilty of criminal 'negligence' for lying to the world. This is total bs. There is no excuse for his getting this wrong. Instead of getting an inside to u.

At least one other reviewer has characterized friedman's it can't be oil explanations as *. Friedman does his readers no favours by leaving them with an unjustified sense of confidence that current american policy will prevail. Friedman is a well educ...  Read More

The * was almost certainly staged by operatives of the ultraconservative spanish government as a way of terrorizing the spanish people into re-electing that same government. The fact that no arab regimes have yet succumbed to a mass-islamist movement ...  Read More

He also fully supports rumsfeld's lies and claims that the bush administration had to lie about wmd, etc. Second, he misleads about the idea of anyone imagining before 9-11-01 that hijacked airliners might be used as missiles, reminiscent of the same ...  Read More