HOW TO WIN A COSMIC WAR: God, Globalization And the End of The War on Terror
Reza Aslan
Random House
ISBN 978-1400066728
228 pages
$26
Reviewed by Tobias Grey
Raised in the "insular town" of Enid, Okla., but born in Tehran, Reza Aslan, the Muslim author of this book, grew accustomed to feeling like the odd man out, especially after the events of Sept. 11, 2001. "Are you with us or with them?" people asked. "Which is it? Time to decide. There is no middle."
But for Aslan, whose coolly detached writing style suits his subject well, there clearly was a "middle" way, one that did not involve him picking sides in a war that could never be won in the first place. In his view, the jihadists who attacked the United States were fighting "a ...
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