Bush Crusader from bookish, a weblog by George Girton

Bush Crusader . . . . . Sep 2 2004 — bookish108.dat

I'm still reading a collection of James Carroll's columns in the Globe. Carroll has studied the crusades and shows GW Bush as a modern day crusader. This is about the best-written book about the war I have come across. At last a book that's quite readable!

I recommend it highly, even though I haven't finished reading it. An important point from Carroll: it would have been possible to go after Bin Laden and the Al Quada terrorists in a police action, without waging war. War has its own imperatives and soon assumes a life of its own. Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust war [buy at amazon] . by James Carroll

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