Book Review: The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State

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April 26th, 2009

Media conditioning tends to play havoc when trying to judge a book by its cover. I always thought the book ‘Catch-22′ by Joseph Heller would be a complex spy thriller, with the protagonist stuck in a no-win save-the-world-or-save-the-girl type situation. After all, that’s how the pundits always frame the term ‘catch-22′. In fact I continued [...]