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Author Rips Apart Conventional ‘War
on Terror’ Beliefs
Lone Rock, WI - Was America’s War on
Terror a ghastly mistake? Did the United
States sacrifice thousands of lives and
billions of dollars for nothing? These are
among the suppositions that author Kevin
Barrett, a Ph.D. and
Arabist-Islamologist, examines in his new
book, Questioning the War on Terror: A
Primer for Obama Voters.
Dr. Barrett knows his conclusions
will stir up controversy and bring emotions
to a boil. He has appeared on Fox, CNN, PBS
and other television networks to defend his
research and will continue his quest to open
the media’s eyes to possibilities they have
dismissed.
Writing in a down-to-earth style, Dr.
Barrett offers extensive, scholarly
documentation to support such startling
conclusions as:
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The War on Terror triggered our current
economic catastrophe
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Terrorism is less of a threat than
lighting bolts and bathtubs
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There is no connection whatsoever
between Islam/Muslims and terrorism
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The only significant terrorists in
today's world are governments
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Osama Bin Laden repeatedly denied and
deplored 9/11, and the FBI agrees he
didn't do it
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Historians agree that many of the
biggest terrorist attacks in history may
have been false-flag "inside jobs"
committed by the enemies of the people
blamed for the attacks
Because these conclusions are so radically
different from the worldview of the
mainstream media, readers may appreciate
that in Questioning the War on Terror: A
Primer for Obama Voters, they are framed
as open-ended questions rather than dogmatic
assertions.
“Americans are 30 times more likely to die
from lightning strikes, and 10 times more
likely to drown in their bathtubs, than to
be killed by terrorists,” Dr. Barrett said.
“Should we declare war against lightning
bolts and bathtubs? Should we install PA
systems in our bathrooms reminding us that
the threat level of bathtub drowning has
been raised to orange? Should we create a
new Department of Bathtub Security empowered
to do sneak-and-peak, warrantless searches
of our bathrooms to make sure that we're
using no-slip bath-mats? Would this be any
crazier than what we're doing now?”
Using the Socratic method, Questioning the
War on Terror asks 54 hard questions that,
taken together, attack the central notion on
which our post-9/11 political life has been
based. It concludes with a list of 22
concrete actions that readers can take to
end the War on Terror and achieve the change
they voted for in the 2008 presidential
election.
Kevin Barrett, Ph.D., is one of America's
best-known critics of the War on Terror. He
taught at colleges and universities in San
Francisco, Paris and Wisconsin, where he ran
for Congress in 2008. Dr. Barrett currently
works as a nonprofit organizer, public
speaker, author and talk radio host. His
website is
http://www.truthjihad.com
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TIP SHEET:
“Kevin Barrett is taking on a big sacred
cow, one that hardly anyone in the
mainstream media or in Congress would dare
to seriously question -- the War on Terror,
which in the past eight years has joined the
flag, motherhood and apple pie as things an
American dares question only at the risk of
being labeled 'unpatriotic' or a 'supporter
of terrorism.' Barrett delves into many of
the assumptions behind the War on Terror:
the myths, the lies, the propaganda. The
reader should be prepared to question some
of his favorite political beliefs.” --
William Blum, author, Killing Hope: US
Military and CIA Interventions Since World
War II |
