The liberal left was very critical of President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and the so-called "neocons" for getting the U.S. into war with Iraq, an antipathy occasionally extending to the war in Afghanistan. Whenever such criticism was voiced to me, I would always ask what the U.S. should have done as a result of 9/11. I never got a satisfactory answer. Douglas J. Feith's 2009 book War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism, is a fascinating account of the days immediately following 9/11 and the intellectual debate which accompanied the decision-making process. Feith was the undersecretary of defense for policy from the first days of the George Bush presidency and as such was in the thick of things, enabling him to write this firsthand account. In the beginning of the book, he lays out his career trajectory. His father escaped from the Nazi killing machine and came to America just after Pearl Harbor. His grandparents, three aunts, and three brothers were not so lucky, dying....
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