Cosmic War and Peace

Recently have been reading the book, "How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror" and can recommend it to anyone seeking a different point of view on this most serious, intriguing and contemporary topic.

In brief, the author, Reza Aslan, in this, his second book, attempts to give an outsider (re: objective) view to America's war on terror.

Democracy, though certainly messy, must always be given time and space to bloom, EVEN when it is not always in America's best interest.

I found his insights on the reasons behind the failure of the Bush Doctrine, in such context, fairly revealing.

[Reviews on the Obama Doctrine must wait; for a little while anyway.]

Several reviews of this book on Amazon.com can be found here.

As for where "God" actually fits into any of this, that must (or should) be left to the reader (as usual).

"Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves."   Frederick Douglass