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Review title: Silly and a bit sad
Product review: Early in the book I stumbled on this sentance: "I was starting to love these guys." This sums up the mood of the book, Kaplans simplistic adulation of the Special Forces. As the book grinds on, for it is long, this gets quite boring; much better are Kaplan's descriptions of the situation in Columbia, Mongolia, Yemen and the Phillipines. Kaplan's Balkan Ghosts was a real five star book, here he gets himself enmeshed in very strange ideologies - sometimes even bordering on facism. I also think that in many ways his analysis is wrong, in many instances the beaurocratic/humanitarian methods of the EU seem to work as well. I suppose a man like Kaplan who believes that the world is headed for total chaos wouldn't subscribe to that.So, in many ways a silly book - I have the impression of a bookish type wanting to be one with a bunch of macho, budweiser drinking soldier types.
