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johno's review against another edition
3.0
Quite interesting but I found it a little hard to get past the religious aspect. The author seemed quite naive, attributing everything to God, and almost glorifying people being "martyred".
It felt a little like he had been indoctrinated into this thinking as a teenager and was never quite able to grow out of it.
I was more sympathetic to the Guantanamo Bay chapters. Even if they're exaggerated (which is the impression I get from some parts of the rest of the book) then the author, and many others, we're treated in an unforgivable way.
The final chapters lost me again - the author was railing against America's "fundamentalism" whilst preaching his own sexist and intolerant rhetoric. I also find it hard to believe that the British armed forces hold some kind of intergenerational vendetta against certain villages based on battles fought 100 or more years ago.
It felt a little like he had been indoctrinated into this thinking as a teenager and was never quite able to grow out of it.
I was more sympathetic to the Guantanamo Bay chapters. Even if they're exaggerated (which is the impression I get from some parts of the rest of the book) then the author, and many others, we're treated in an unforgivable way.
The final chapters lost me again - the author was railing against America's "fundamentalism" whilst preaching his own sexist and intolerant rhetoric. I also find it hard to believe that the British armed forces hold some kind of intergenerational vendetta against certain villages based on battles fought 100 or more years ago.
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