HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?! The Single Most Important Hour About the Middle East Imbroglio

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Americans are demanding answers to this question from Washington policy-makers about the endangered economy.

The same demand should be made from the same policy-makers about what has happened in the critical Middle East region.

Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk is in fact asking this question and answering it.

If anyone has the expertise to do this, it is Robert Fisk. He is one of a small handful of professional independent experts who have devoted their lives to learning about and writing about the realities of the situation in today’s Middle East.

We feature Fisk’s question and answer now because to fully appreciate why Goals for Americans will soon be publishing SAVING ISRAEL FROM ITSELF and SAVING AMERICA FROM ISRAEL what Fisk has to say is of critical importance.

Robert Fisk has been based in the region, with home in Beirut, since 1976. He began his career as the Middle East correspondent for THE TIMES OF LONDON. In recent years, he has been the star region and globe-trotting correspondent for THE INDEPENDENT.

Two years ago, Fisk published THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILISATION - The Conquest of the Middle East. It is a tremendous book — both in content and length.

Here are just a few of the superlative reviews:

“A magisterial report from the shifting front lines of the Middle East. It deserves to be read by all those concerned with what is happening in Iraq today.” —The Boston Globe

“A stimulating and absorbing book, by a man who…has met the leading players, from bin Laden to Ahmad Chalabi… A formidable production.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Vivid, graphic, intense… A book of unquestionable importance… [Fisk’s] experience of war is unmatched, [as is] his capacity to convey that experience in concrete, passionate language.” —The Washington Post Book World

“Fisk’s magnum opus…seals [his] place as a venerable, indispensable contributor to informed debate in and about the Middle East.” —The Nation

“Powerful… Mr. Fisk is a gifted writer and an accomplished storyteller…his love affair with the region and the glamorous profession of being a foreign correspondent finds expression on every page.” —The Economist

No Washington policy-makers were at Fisk’s World Affairs Council talk in the basement at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on 30 September. He has a sequel book out now, The Age of the Warrior that brought him briefly to Washington.

But if the policy-makers are serious about wanting to understand what is wrong with U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, and the urgency of changing those policies before it is too late, first we advise them to spend the next hour watching this GfA video of Fisk’s talk and then to read and ponder our unique and exclusive upcoming publication SAVING ISRAEL FROM ITSELF and SAVING AMERICA FROM ISRAEL.

October 21, 2008 | Filed Under GFA