America's Promise Restored: Preventing Culture, Crusade, and Partisanship from Wrecking Our Nation - Hardcover

Ullman, Harlan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786717580 ISBN 13: 9780786717583

Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, 2006

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Book by Ullman Harlan

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America's Promise Restored is by one of America's foremost military and political thinkers. It shows how, if left unchecked, America's current political culture and historical capacity for crusade -- motivated and corrupted by ideology -- will prove far more destructive than all of Bin Laden's devilish intentions. Contemporary American politics is destroying America's relevance and influence abroad and its democratic values at home. This book shows how these forces evolved and have been transformed, fragmented, and perverted such that America has been broken by old political mindsets and harsh partisanship; how religion, ideological overtones, and excesses prevent rational policy. We also see that the forces threatening American democracy are an "antique" form of government that seems to be in permanent gridlock since it is driven, distorted and corrupted by self-interest. These things have engaged the nation in the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time, as well as having intruded across inviolable political boundaries; and an extraordinarily dangerous yet misunderstood threat that can draw on tens of millions of converts -- many of whom are prepared to die in the process of imposing a political-theological regime on a region rich in oil with access to nuclear weapons.

Biografía del autor:

Harlan K. Ullman, Ph.D., is a senior adviser to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a prominent Washington, DC, think tank, and a senior fellow at the Center for Naval Analyses. He is a columnist for the WASHINGTON TIMES and a commentator on Fox News, the BBC, and Al Jazeera. His military background includes skippering swift boats during the Vietnam War and commanding a destroyer in the Persian Gulf. He is the author of OWLS AND EAGLES: ENDING THE FOREIGN POLICY FLIGHT OF FANCY OF HAWKS, DOVES, AND NEO-CONS; FINISHING BUSINESS: TEN STEPS TO DEFEAT GLOBAL TERROR; and UNFINISHED BUSINESS: AFGHANISTAN, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND BEYOND--DEFUSING THE DANGERS THAT THREATEN AMERICA'S SECURITY. Ullman is credited with being the principal architect of the "shock and awe" doctrine that was adopted by the Pentagon. He lives in Washington, DC.

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• Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0786717580
• ISBN 13: 9780786717583
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320