"An important book... [Ian Lustick] is willing to engage in a critical examination and speaks truths that politicians and pundits run from."-Middle East Policy "Ian Lustick has written a brave, forceful, and very valuable book. I wish that every politician promising to 'defend' America would read what he has to say. Failing that, the voters should."-James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly "Ian Lustick's excellent book presents in an engaging and most intelligent manner a point of view that should be far more widely considered. It brings the problem of terrorism, such as it is, back down to earth and deftly skewers the large political, economic, and media industry that has an interest in exaggerating terrorism's effect and in scaring people unnecessarily. I recommend the book highly."-John Mueller, Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University "A must and timely read for all who worry that we are trapped in a self-defeating strategy. Lustick courageously swims against the within beltway wisdom by raising the question whether the U.S. government treatment of counter-terrorism is worse than the disease itself."-Marc Sageman, author of Understanding Terror Networks
