{"id":5804,"date":"2008-10-04T20:28:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T04:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2008-10-04T20:28:41","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T04:28:41","slug":"war-and-decision-inside-the-pentagon-at-the-dawn-of-the-war-on-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5804","title":{"rendered":"War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was really looking forward to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/War-Decision-Inside-Pentagon-Terrorism\/dp\/0060899735\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1223180375&amp;sr=8-2\">this book<\/a> and then when I tucked into it today, I found it was deadly dull.<\/p>\n<p>Feith writes about &quot;terrorist extremists.&quot; As opposed to &quot;terrorist moderates&quot;?<\/p>\n<p>He also uses the phrase, &quot;I personally.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I personally can not recommend this book unless you are seriously interested in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. If you&#8217;re looking for a page turner, then check out Harold Robbins or the Artscroll translation of Bava Kama Sutra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was really looking forward to this book and then when I tucked into it today, I found it was deadly dull. Feith writes about &quot;terrorist extremists.&quot; As opposed to &quot;terrorist moderates&quot;? He also uses the phrase, &quot;I personally.&quot; I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5804\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13259,13258,13261,13260,13255],"class_list":["post-5804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-feith","tag-harold-robbins","tag-kama-sutra","tag-page-turner","tag-war-on-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5805,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions\/5805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}