Future Tense

I am currently reading an interesting book by Gwynne Dyer which is a case study of the attack on Iraq and how it was preordained from the early days of Bush’s Presidency. The key members of Bush’s Cabinet were all part of a ‘Think Tank’ Group in the late 1990’s and this group published a paper calling for the overthrow of Saddam Hussien. The conclusions that the book puts forward while interesting are not necessary rational. The conclusion that the main reason for the invasion of Iraq was to promote American Colonialism and not the giant oil reserves in the region does not make much sense to me.

Also links to Osama bin Laden and terrorism are somewhat vague and Dyer tries to use these links to explain Islamism and how it has impacted American Political thinking. While the book is interesting the conclusions leave a lot of unanswered questions. This would work better as a work of fiction except for the fact that the main characters were poorly developed and lack any sort of personality.