Ebook Info
- Published: 2002
- Number of pages: 416 pages
- Format: PDF
- File Size: 1.31 MB
- Authors: Bob Woodward
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With his unmatched investigative skill, Bob Woodward tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President George W. Bush and his top national security advisers, after the initial shock of the September 11 attacks, led the nation to war. Extensive quotations from the secret deliberations of the National Security Council — and firsthand revelations of the private thoughts, concerns and fears of the president and his war cabinet — make Bush at War an unprecedented chronicle of a modern presidency in time of grave crisis. Based on interviews with more than a hundred sources and four hours of exclusive interviews with the president, Bush at War reveals Bush’s sweeping, almost grandiose, vision for remaking the world. “I’m not a textbook player, I’m a gut player,” the president said. Woodward’s virtual wiretap into the White House Situation Room reveals a stunning group portrait of an untested president and his advisers, three of whom might themselves have made it to the presidency. Vice President Dick Cheney, taciturn but hard-line, always pressing for more urgency in Afghanistan and toward Iraq. Secretary of State Colin Powell, the cautious diplomat and loyal soldier, tasked with building an international coalition in an administration prone to unilateralism. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the brainy agitator and media star who led the military through Afghanistan and, he hopes, through Iraq. National security adviser Condoleezza Rice, the ever-present troubleshooter who surprisingly emerges as perhaps the president’s most important adviser. Bush at War includes a vivid portrait of CIA director George Tenet, ready and eager for covert action against terrorists in Afghanistan and worldwide. It follows a CIA paramilitary team leader on a covert mission inside Afghanistan to pay off assets and buy friends with millions in U.S. currency carried in giant suitcases. In Bush at War, Bob Woodward once again delivers a reporting tour de force.
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⭐Any review of this book – like the book itself – may be swiftly out of date as the result of events in Iraq in the next few weeks, but perhaps now is the best time for some honest reflection about where we are, before work on the inevitable sequel begins.Most of the negative reviews of this book are based on the common but dangerously false assumption that “anyone who disagrees with us must be stupid and/or dishonest” – followed by the equally foolish assumption that anyone who provides information to the contrary must be stupid and/or dishonest too.In fact, Bob Woodward seems intelligent and honest. The greatest proof of his journalistic objectivity is the fact that it provides evidence both for and against the Administration and its policies.On the credit side, even those who disagree with the President must, if they are fair minded, agree that, on the evidence here, he is an intelligent man who was deeply and sincerely moved by the experience of 11 September. Many who style themselves “intellectuals” in western Europe have a cartoon image of President Bush as some sort of simple-minded Texan cowboy – thus indicating that they are not as intellectual as they think for he is clearly nothing of the sort. He is also very much the leader within his own administration. Of his lieutenants, General Powell, unsurprisingly, comes out best, as the sort of chap you want at your side in a crisis, but, more surprisingly, Vice President Cheney puts his hawkish instincts second to loyalty, and also seems the man most likely to raise an important and common sense point everyone else has overlooked in a meeting. DCI Tenet desrves credit for covering up the CIA’s intelligence failure with an aggressive covert action campaign. The real star, however, is Condi Rice. If the Vice President, who has heart problems, decides to retire at the next election, she seems the obvious candidate to replace him. I am beginning to think I might see a woman President in my lifetime – and a black Republican woman President at that.On the debit side, it is frightening that the biggest and most sophisticated government in the world comes down to decisions made on the hoof by a handful of people under intense pressure at the very top: the description of how the “Bush Doctrine” was born is both instructive and terrifying. That the most powerful military machine the world has ever seen is controlled by a Pentagon bureaucracy that seemed paralysed at first, like a mighty dinosaur waiting for signals to travel to and from its brain, is also cause for concern. Above all, we should all pray for the health of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, if only because the thought of his Deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, getting his hands on a position of greater responsibility, even for a few minutes, is truly horrifying. Doctor Strangelove lives.The book itself is compulsive reading – strangely similar in style and content to a Tom Clancy novel, with Rice as Jack Ryan. The fictional Ryan was, of course, National Security Adviser before becoming Vice President – and then getting the big job.
⭐Bush At War by Bob Woodward (2002) presents a detailed record of President George W. Bush. The book catalogs the events of the first one hundred days following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Woodward does not present an outward thesis and also does not pass any ascertainable judgment or analysis on the events or decisions made by Bush or the National Security Council (NSC). The book serves primarily as a documentary which was written promptly following the terrorists attack and therefore at the time of publication had very little historical context. Woodward writes from an insider’s perspective but freely admits in his “Note to Readers” how he obtained his information, thoughts, conclusions and actions by the primary actors in the text. The interview methodology was problematic due to the time span between actions, decisions and interviews. In this context (many officials were still serving the President) the interviewee is apt to relay information, thoughts and actions favorable to him or herself ignoring poor decisions or contrary opinions or others. Woodward does an acceptable job with his presentation of issues and narrates in a manner consistent with fact based presentation. The author evenly establishes the tenor and tone of the NSC and Principal’s meetings portraying areas of agreement and disagreement within the Bush Administration. The narrative highlights many questions posed by Principals, of which there were no substantive answers at the time. The internal disagreements surfaced in debate both in front and external of the President. The subtle debate alludes to friction within the NSC where individuals are advancing their individual views, ideology and agendas. Students interested in foreign policy and the application of military force in support of national interests should read this book for several reasons. First, the author allows the reader examine how foreign policy is formed and how it can be changed based on sudden and direct threats to national interests. The book includes highlights of the President of the United States as a central actor in the NSC but also demonstrate other actors having significant influences on the scope and direction of a particular policy. The main influences of focus by the author are public sentiment, legal Presidential authority, international perception and diplomacy. All of these key influences serve to focus what ends are achievable and therefore shape the resultant policy. The process and the speed in which the administration had to make key decisions on policy with long term impact demonstrates despite study, formulas and theory, the process at which policy is arrived at is much more fluid. Secondly, ten years after publication, the book can now be viewed in some historical context and provides the reader information to measure and judge the decisions during those one-hundred days after September 2001. Examination of the results of the policies and decisions made at the time illustrate how the Bush Doctrine worked and how the doctrine caused problems for long term U.S interests.
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