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The terror dream

A review of Winning the Right War: The Path to Security for America and the World by Philip Gordon; Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror by Ian Shapiro; and The Silence of the Rational Center: Why American Foreign Policy is Failing by Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke. A review of The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi (and more and more). A review of the “Message to the World on the Sixth Anniversary of 9/11” by Osama bin Laden. Al Qaeda offers one rationale for its actions to Western audiences, but another to Muslims, writes Raymond Ibrahim, editor of The Al Qaeda Reader. Why Osama hates microfinance: Has bin Laden become the first prophet in a new line of Islamic Marxists? Or is he just another would-be dictator searching for specious arguments? Al-Qaeda's forerunner: An interview with Yaroslav Trofimov, author of The Siege of Mecca. A review of The Islamist by Ed Husain.