The Good Fight: Why Liberals---and Only Liberals---Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again - Peter Beinart

Peter Beinart is a good columnist and after reading this book, I'm going to recommend he stick to that. He's right to believe there is some purpose in democracy within Iraq. He's very right to criticize the Bush administration and he's also right that Liberals have and could fight a better battle in war time. I agree with everything he said but nothing in this book compelled me. Most of it is general history about the democrats in war and their ability in the past to "fight the good fight." Little of this history is truly depth compared to the mountain of literature already available. Beinart's history lesson is meant to be lead up to his analysis on the Iraq War. The problem is that analysis only comes in continually occuring mentions and then explanation for just fifteen pages about what to do with Iraq. I'm kinda miffed. Assuming his readers already knew much of the history he describes, this might have been a better essay instead of a book. I wish a book of all his columns over the period of the Iraq War was published. That would have been good reading for anyone not familar with him.