Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1. The Imperative of Triage
Chapter 2. Perceptions of the Terrorist Threat
Chapter 3. Measuring the Terrorist Threat: What Is the Evidence?
Chapter 4. The Cabal, the Invasion of Iraq, and the Origins of the War on Terror
Chapter 5. The War on Terror Whirlwind
Chapter 6. Freeing America from the War on Terror
Notes
Index

Promotional Information

"Ian Lustick has written a brave, forceful, and very valuable book. I wish that every politician promising to 'defend' America would read what he has to say. Failing that, the voters should."—James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly

About the Author

Ian S. Lustick is Professor of Political Science, Bess W. Heyman Chair, at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books and coeditor (with Ann M. Lesch) of Exile and Return: Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Visit the author's Trapped in the War on Terror website.

Reviews

"An important book... [Ian Lustick] is willing to engage in a critical examination and speaks truths that politicians and pundits run from."--Middle East Policy "Ian Lustick has written a brave, forceful, and very valuable book. I wish that every politician promising to 'defend' America would read what he has to say. Failing that, the voters should."--James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly "Ian Lustick's excellent book presents in an engaging and most intelligent manner a point of view that should be far more widely considered. It brings the problem of terrorism, such as it is, back down to earth and deftly skewers the large political, economic, and media industry that has an interest in exaggerating terrorism's effect and in scaring people unnecessarily. I recommend the book highly."--John Mueller, Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University "A must and timely read for all who worry that we are trapped in a self-defeating strategy. Lustick courageously swims against the within beltway wisdom by raising the question whether the U.S. government treatment of counter-terrorism is worse than the disease itself."--Marc Sageman, author of Understanding Terror Networks