From Pulitzer Prize—winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation's struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. From the White House to Downing Street, from the fault–line countries of South Asia to the sands of Guantánamo, Suskind offers an astonishing story that connects world leaders to the forces waging today's shadow wars and to the next generation of global citizens. Tracking down truth and hope within the Beltway and far beyond it, Suskind delivers historic disclosures with this emotionally stirring and strikingly original portrait of the post-9/11 world.
In a sweeping, propulsive, and multilayered narrative, The Way of the World investigates how America relinquished the moral leadership it now desperately needs to fight the real threat of our era: a nuclear weapon in the hands of terrorists. Truth, justice, and accountability become more than mere words in this story. Suskind shows where the most neglected dangers lie in the story of "The Armageddon Test"—a desperate gamble to send undercover teams into the world's nuclear black market to frustrate the efforts of terrorists trying to procure weapons–grade uranium. In the end, he finally reveals for the first time the explosive falsehood underlying the Iraq War and the entire Bush presidency.
The author also claims that the Bush administration had information from a top Iraqi intelligence official "that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq – intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion."
Forgery or no, the letter did exist and was reported by several media outlets, including The (London) Sunday Telegraph and Fox News, Politico reports. The White House has called the allegation of forgery "absurd."
Ron Suskind is an American journalist and writer. A former Wall Street Journal reporter (1993-2000), he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1995. On January 13, 2004, his book on former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill and the Bush administration, The Price of Loyalty, was published, revealing details about the early years of the Bush administration. Among the many claims in the book, which drew from numerous sources and more than 19,000 internal government documents, was that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the U.S. occupation of Iraq was planned from Bush's first U.S. National Security Council meeting in January 2001. Administration officials have contended that O'Neill confused contingency plans with actual plans for invasion.
Forgery or no, the letter did exist and was reported by several media outlets, including The (London) Sunday Telegraph and Fox News, Politico reports. The White House has called the allegation of forgery "absurd."
Ron Suskind is an American journalist and writer. A former Wall Street Journal reporter (1993-2000), he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1995. On January 13, 2004, his book on former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill and the Bush administration, The Price of Loyalty, was published, revealing details about the early years of the Bush administration. Among the many claims in the book, which drew from numerous sources and more than 19,000 internal government documents, was that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the U.S. occupation of Iraq was planned from Bush's first U.S. National Security Council meeting in January 2001. Administration officials have contended that O'Neill confused contingency plans with actual plans for invasion.
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