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The Pulitzer Prizewinning author examines the cardinal failing of Washingtons war on terror This book distills eleven years of expert reporting for The New York Times, Reuters, and The Atlantic Monthly into a clarion call for change. An incisive look at the evolving nature of war, Rohde exposes how a dysfunctional Washington squandered billions on contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, neglected its true allies in the war on terror and failed to employ its most potent nonmilitary weapons American consumerism, technology, and investment. Rohde then surveys post-Arab Spring Tunisia, Turkey, and Egypt, and finds a yearning for American technology, trade, and education. He argues that only Muslim moderates, not Americans, can eradicate militancy. For readers of Steve Coll, Tom Ricks, and Ahmed Rashid, Beyond War shows how the failed American effort to back moderate Muslims since 911 can be salvaged.
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David Rohde is the executive editor for news of newyorker.com and an MSNBC contributor. A two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, he is a former investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for Reuters, the New York Times, and the Christian Science Monitor who covered the wars in Afghanistan and Bosnia. He lives in New York with his wife and two daughters.
