Finishing Business

by Harlan Ullman

"This book completes the work of the 9/11 Commission, expanding its specific intelligence recommendations into a comprehensive strategic action plan to defeat global terror at home and abroad. Harlan Ullman warns that the United States is mistakenly fighting a war it does not understand, waging it with flawed objectives in the wrong places, against the wrong people, and with the wrong tools. He predicts that we will not be safe until we understand that terror is only a tactic. The real threat comes from its underlying causes and political motivations." "Defining terror as a symptom not a cause, Ullman argues that unless the causes of terror are rectified or neutralized, waging a war against it will fare no better than wars on drugs, poverty, crime, and other social ills. He defines the danger as Jihadist Extremism: a political ideology as ambitious as Bolshevism and Nazism - clothed in a perverse interpretation of a religion with 1.3 billion followers - that is intent on establishing s