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Chasing Ghosts: The Policing of Terrorism 1st Edition

by John Mueller (Author), Mark Stewart (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars 4 customer reviews
ISBN-13: 978-0190237318
ISBN-10: 0190237317
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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 408 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (November 30, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0190237317
  • ISBN-13: 978-0190237318
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 1.4 x 6.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #406,919 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsAnother great book by John Mueller
By Eric on January 1, 2016
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This is an incredibly well argued and well researched analysis of America's approach to policing terrorism. Readers of John Mueller's other books, including "Overblown," will find many of the arguments familiar but there is enough new material here to make it well worth reading.

One of the most valuable contributions of this book is to make a fairly rigorous attempt at a cost-benefit analysis of America's expenditures on counterterrorism, including controversial programs like the NSA metadata collection program. This analysis is important because the issue isn't whether counterterrorism expenditures make us safer; rather, the issue is whether they make us sufficiently more safe to justify their cost. In one key chapter, for example, Mueller convincingly argues that our $100bn+ of annual spending on counterterrorism can only be justified under any conventional cost-benefit analysis if, absent those efforts, there would be approximately 300 attempts annually at a Boston Marathon-scale attack. Of course, clearly there are nowhere near enough would-be terrorists to provide such an almost daily onslaught of deadly plots.

Which segues to another important contribution of this book: relentlessly and definitively debunking the idea that there is an invisible teeming horde of terrorists that ever-waiteth, ever-watcheth, ready to strike at any moment. Rather, Mueller offers many compelling reasons to believe that there simply aren't that many people out there with the proclivity to commit mass murder in the name of radical Islamist ideology, or any ideology for that matter.

Finally, another achievement of this book is to debunk the myth of the terrorist "mastermind.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsWill Americans listen to the alarmists and allow another trillion dollars to be wasted somewhere else
By Mitchel Fidel on December 5, 2015
Format: Hardcover
Thank God there are a few voices of reason, while the USA nowadays sounds its shrill "We are at war!" alarm bells of hysteria 24 hours a day. Did a trillion dollars dumped into Afghanistan do anything to curtail terrorism? Did a trillion dollars dumped into Iraq do anything to curtail terrorism? Will Americans listen to the alarmists and allow another trillion dollars to be wasted somewhere else, all because a typical American's chances of being harmed by a terrorist have risen from one in fifty million to one in ten million? Please wake up, sheeple!
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4.0 out of 5 starsCHASING GHOSTS: THE POLICING OF TERRORISM
By Alf (Darryl Ashton) Garnett JNR! on April 11, 2016
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TO END ALL TERRORISM

The world is in mourning,
because of terrorists
attacks,
But the world will fight back -
and stop them in their tracks.
I don't know what morbid
pleasure they get - in
causing so much hell,
We should all live together,
and in peace we all will
dwell.

All around is carnage -
bodies are everywhere -
All lives have been shattered -
the terrorists don't care.
Mass loss of life - and such
great pain, it is like hell-on-
earth.
Why can't the terrorists all
repent - and create a glorious
rebirth?

Streets marked with blood
as bodies do lay still,
The eerie silence engulfs
the air - like an evil chill.
The sky is cloudy the sun
disappears.
The moon is also trembling -
trying to hide its fears.

I ask my God in heaven - why
this has to happen,I never got
an answer - perhaps it is
forbidden.
What has gone so badly wrong,
and why all this hate?
Can't we all live in peace -
and love we can all create.

Mankind is the enemy - but it
need not be this way,
A magic of love and peace -
we can all create today.
Islamic States, please hear
my plea,
Please stop all this killing -
and I'll invite you all for tea!

Killings solves nothing - it
creates more terrible hatred.
Let us all pray together as
prayer and peace is sacred.
The world can all hold hands,
and laugh, cry and sleep.
Tomorrow is a whole new
day - friendship we can keep.

Please, let's stop all this
killing - life is just too short.
You could all come to Blackpool
Town - a fabulous seaside
resort.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars
By CuriousCat on February 5, 2016
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Very interesting and informative. Worth the expense and time.
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