The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda by Peter L. BergenMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Published at a time when Bin Laden was yet alive while also questions abounded as to not 0nly where he lived, but if he lived, this has a retrospective feel. It is a look back at the first key decade plus of the Global War on Terror. The focus is on missteps of the bush years from Tora Bora to ill-considered torture. This brings up to Obama's tenure and stepped up drone attacks, less comity with Pakistan, and the albatross of Guantanamo. Two things jumped out at me: (1) Bush briefers knowing McCain's presidential hopes were non-existent when his people where inattentive and not taking notes compared to Obama's and (2) several pages of anti-9/11 pronouncements by moderate Muslim leaders.
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