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Tim wrote: >>"2001" is misleading. I got my copy in July 1989 (so my copy says), and >>the copyright is 1985/86. She added a few items, but basically the book >>the book is very, very dated. There's nothing dated about the new chapters on events leading up to Sept. 11th. How much has scholarship on the history of the periods adressed changed since 1989, anyway? If you know of a comparable work that's more current and a better introduction to the subject, I'm sure a lot of people here would be interested to hear of it. Ian Lesser's "Countering the New Terrorism" (which I read when it came out in 1999) was another good, quick read which comes to mind, but really more tactical than historical. Tonight, I was planning on reading Albert Hourani's far more comprehensive "History of the Arab Peoples". Any other suggestions would be welcome. > An interesting sidenote: when Terry Anderson was being held hostage, the > 1985 edition of this book was one of the few things his captors gave > him to read. >>Confirming my point about how old it is. It tells us nothing >>libertarians didn't already know: butt out. Or, in Washington's >>paraphrased words, "avoid foreign entanglements." Sure. But just because one knows foreign meddling is likely to lead to disaster doesn't mean the particular disasterous consequences of a given policy aren't worth learning about. And learning from. ~Faustine. *** He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBPHFFSvg5Tuca7bfvEQKvcACg8i0FT/QdjdWx5QB7mIvL4MzJWY4AoIEd R2xlotLXLgn8oCnL6FDfeUN6 =1rne -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
