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The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 Paperback – May 15, 2007

by Ron Suskind (Author)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind takes you deep inside America's real battles with violent, unrelenting terrorists—a game of kill-or-be-killed, from the Oval Office to the streets of Karachi.

Ron Suskind takes readers inside the defining conflict of our era: the war between the West and a growing, shadowy army of terrorists, armed with weapons of alarming power.

Relying on unique access to former and current government officials, this book will reveal for the first time how the US government—from President Bush on down—is frantically improvising to fight a new kind of war. Where is the enemy? What have been the real victories and defeats since 9/11? How are we actually fighting this war and how can it possibly be won?

Filled with astonishing disclosures, Suskind's book shows readers what he calls "the invisible battlefield"— a global matrix where US spies race to catch soldiers of jihad before they strike. It is a real-life spy thriller with the world's future at stake. It also reveals the shocking and secret philosophy underpinning the war on terror. Gripping and alarming in equal measure, it will reframe the debate about a war that, each day, redefines America and its place in the world.
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  5. ISBN-10
    0743271106
  6. ISBN-13
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Customers find the book provides great insight into the War on Terror. They describe it as an eye-opener that is worth reading. The writing quality is praised as clear and well-crafted. However, opinions differ on the knowledge level, with some finding it informative and meticulously researched, while others consider it inconclusive and useless as history. There are mixed views on the pacing, with some finding it chilling and unsettling, while others consider it frightening and enlightening.

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Customers find the book provides an insightful look into the story from the inside. They describe it as fascinating and eye-opening, with lots of details and a great narrative. The book covers a subject of extreme historical significance with detail and supportable facts.

"The One Percent Doctrine is a fascinating, chilling look at the War on Terror from the viewpoint of those on the inside...." Read more

"...'s like a draft script to the now defunct TV series "West Wing", filled with drama , courage and histrionics...." Read more

"...Suskind unravels the story from the inside, with playfully written scenes between key characters involved in the intelligence community and the..." Read more

"...policy and the post 9/11 anti-terrorism activities, it leads to great insight into all aspects of the administration's behavior...." Read more

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Customers find the book engaging and worth reading. They say it's a fun read that allows readers to understand how the administration makes decisions. Readers also mention the story is compelling, but some found the writing style a bit stilted.

"...this book is useless as history, but is nonetheless a well written, fun read...." Read more

"...It allows the reader to finally understand how all decisions in the administration are made and what "pre-emptive war" actually means today...." Read more

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"...It is not a bad thing, just seems irrelevant in a way. Loved the book - would recommend it to any thinking person who wants to pursue the question..." Read more

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Customers find the book well-written and readable. They appreciate the author's craft of words and the engaging scenes between key characters. However, some readers felt the story was unclear.

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"...The writing is so superb, you get carried away with the narration of events and people and the pure expose' of the revelations. There is no..." Read more

"...This is yet another book meticulously researched and well written by Ron Suskind, but not as enjoyable or ground-breaking as "The Price of Loyalty"...." Read more

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Customers have different views on the book's knowledge. Some find it informative and well-researched, with a thorough understanding of the subject matter. Others feel it lacks clarity and is inconclusive, lacking historical value.

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"...Suskind obviously has unbelievably knowledgable sources and is extremely even handed in his statement of facts...." Read more

"...al. There are failures all too well known, 'successses' that weren't, and victories left unheralded...." Read more

"...This is yet another book meticulously researched and well written by Ron Suskind, but not as enjoyable or ground-breaking as "The Price of Loyalty"...." Read more

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  • L. Roth
    5.0 out of 5 stars What We Don't See About the War on Terror
    Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2006
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    The One Percent Doctrine is a fascinating, chilling look at the War on Terror from the viewpoint of those on the inside. It's unsettling, because it reveals the stark choices an open society faces in choosing to fight a war in the shadows. It's an accounting of the efforts of people caught by the tsunami of 911 struggling to come up with a response: faceless bureaucrats, academics, politicos, intelligence professionals, law enforcement, the military, et. al. There are failures all too well known, 'successses' that weren't, and victories left unheralded.

    It's a conflict the U.S. hadn't prepared for, against an enemy that had been ignored and was largely unknown. Who are they - and what are they going to do next? Where? The One Percent Doctrine details how people came together to answer those questions - and are still trying to answer them today. The battlefield keeps shifting.

    If you've read Suskind's previous book, "The Price of Loyalty", you'll be getting a parallax view of the administration here. There are heros and villains, extremely capable people and incompetent hacks, and people just trying to do the best they can with the tools at hand. So much depends on the personal in this conflict that the element of chance is critical all too often.

    Compare what's in this book against what's been shown on the news, shouted from the campaign platforms, argued over by the pundits, and you won't sleep well tonight. But, you'll have a better understanding of what the stakes really are, how real the threats are, and just what kind of job Bush and the administration have been doing.
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  • Retired Reader
    4.0 out of 5 stars But what did he mean?
    Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2006
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    When ever the press uncovers and quotes some particularly outrageous spoken statement from a congressman or senior government official a common defense is that the quote was `taken out of context'. Although used so often as to become almost a cliché, the fact of the matter is that it is a good defense. The circumstances in which a spoken statement is made invariably affect the meaning of the speaker. Further a spoken comment may not have the same implications when said aloud as it does when written down. Irony or sarcasm are too often lost when the spoken word is committed to paper. Finally persons who reveal what was said in private conversations, like people who leak classified information generally do so because they are pursuing their own agendas which in turn colors the information they provide.

    This is a rather long way of saying that this book by Ron Suskind is a compilation of out of context quotes or second hand accounts of occurrences that may or may not have happened in the way they are described. Indeed the main premise of the book is based on a supposed statement made by Vice president Cheney to Bob Mueller (Dir FBI) and George Tenant (then Dir CIA), "If there's a one per cent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda to build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have treat it as a certainty in terms of our response." According to Suskind this statement became the basis for the controversial doctrine of preemption which is supposedly guiding our foreign and strategic policies. Yet what did Cheney really mean by it? Did he literally mean that the U.S. should act even if there was only a one per cent chance we were facing a threat or was he trying to prod two notoriously sluggish agencies to become more pro-active in the defense of America? Well only Cheney and maybe Mueller and Tenet would know for sure and they aren't likely to talk.

    In the end this book is useless as history, but is nonetheless a well written, fun read. It's like a draft script to the now defunct TV series "West Wing", filled with drama , courage and histrionics. This reviewer found the book is best read after a couple of shots of vodka.
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  • M. JEFFREY MCMAHON
    5.0 out of 5 stars Chilling Nonfiction Narrative About Our Spiralling Descent
    Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2006
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    Using a narrative form like a suspense novel, Suskind uses close sources to the White House and CIA to recreate the events before and after 9/11. What's chilling is that it becomes apparent early in the book that our adversaries are not only El Qaeda but our own "notables," Bush, Cheney, and others whose focus is not so much on El Qaeda and its terror links to the Saudis but a war on Iraq that has no connection to our war on terror. We see Bush's indifference to CIA terrorist warnings in August of 2001 as he's vacationing in his Texas home; we see the CIA being pressured to write documents showing that Iraq is a threat deserving of attack, we see a President who acts like an obedient child under the orders of Cheney and Rumsfeld, we see a cabal of neoconservatives creating an "academic" but not realistic "pre-emptive" war against the Middle East.

    This is a terrifying read as we watch helplessly as our country goes down the wrong path. Even more chilling are the scenes when we see good loyal American servants, the "invisibles," sacrificing all they have to save our country and seeing their efforts impeded by this current administration.

    The book's most dramatic indictment against the Bush administration comes from the CIA itself when we learn that Bin Laden, after a long hiatus, re-appears, just days before the 2004 Presidential Election, to give a chilling video speech in which he mocks Bush and the United States. The CIA interprets Bin Laden's performance as way to "assist the President's reelection." We can infer then that Bin Laden knows that Bush's missteps help El Qaeda's cause and as such it's in El Qaeda's best interest to keep Bush in power. We can further conclude then that it is in our best interests, as Americans, NOT to have a political leader of Bush's ilk. What a devastating condemnation.
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  • Pratap
    3.0 out of 5 stars Boring
    Reviewed in India on August 13, 2020
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    Very boring . Writer tried to project as if whole world is managed by American agencies . Becomes unbearable by the time you reach till end
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  • D_Bell
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent. Very readable and very eye opening
    Reviewed in Canada on August 29, 2015
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    There is a reason writers win a Pulitzer Prize and this book is one of them. Excellent. Very readable and very eye opening.
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