An End to Evil, David Frum
An End to Evil, David Frum
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An End to Evil
How to Win the War on Terror

Author: David Frum, R. Perle

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Unabridged: 7 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/30/2003


Synopsis

An End to Evil charts the agenda for what’s next in the war on terrorism, as articulated by David Frum, former presidential speechwriter and bestselling author of The Right Man, and Richard Perle, former assistant secretary of defense and one of the most influential foreign-policy leaders in Washington.

This world is an unsafe place for Americans—and the U.S. government remains unready to defend its people. In An End to Evil, David Frum and Richard Perle sound the alert about the dangers around us: the continuing threat from terrorism, the crisis with North Korea, the aggressive ambitions of China. Frum and Perle provide a detailed, candid account of America’s vulnerabilities: a military whose leaders resist change, intelligence agencies mired in bureaucracy, diplomats who put friendly relations with their foreign colleagues ahead of the nation’s interests. Perle and Frum lay out a bold program to defend America—and to win the war on terror.

Among the topics this book addresses:

• why the United States risks its security if it submits to the authority of the United Nations
• why France and Saudi Arabia have to be treated as adversaries, not allies, in the war on terror
• why the United States must take decisive action against Iran—now
• what to do in North Korea if negotiations fail
• why everything you read in the newspapers about the Israeli-Arab dispute is wrong
• how our government must be changed if we are to fight the war on terror to victory—not just stalemate
• where the next great terror threat is coming from—and what we can do to protect ourselves

An End to Evil will define the conservative point of view on foreign policy for a new generation—and shape the agenda for the 2004 presidential-election year and beyond. With a keen insiders’ perspective on how our leaders are confronting—or not confronting—the war on terrorism, David Frum and Richard Perle make a convincing argument for why the toughest line is the safest line.

About David Frum

David Frum is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former special assistant and speechwriter to President George W. Bush. He is a regular commentator on American Public Radio's Marketplace and writes the popular David Frum's Diary for National Review. Frum is the author or coauthor of a number of books, including The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, How We Got Here, and America's Party: Rebuilding a Republican Majority. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and three children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Joseph on May 01, 2018

The title of this book tells us a lot about where conservatism, especially Neo-conservatism, was in the early 2000's. A true Burkean would treat "An End to Evil" as a ridiculous statement, which indeed, it is. The book should be subtitled "Two Unreconstructed Neocons Show Why Liberals Are at Fault f......more

Goodreads review by Budd on October 26, 2021

Seriously outdated but good background for terror group s and US/Worlds reactions. Often I like to look back and see if the pundits got it right and often they get it terribly wrong. Some humility would have made this a useful experience but it sounds to me as if someone on the far right used this as......more

Goodreads review by Mike on April 11, 2018

An interesting prospective from the Hawks. There is no way to make the war in Iraq a good idea, but still gave some prospective to the geopolitical realities of the area.......more

Goodreads review by Broc on May 27, 2008

Great book. The former assistant secretary of defense, Richard Perle, lays out some subtle but essential points in understanding the war on terror.......more

Goodreads review by Steven on December 25, 2013

Informative.......more


Quotes

“A not completely crazy case can be made that the most influential thinker in the foreign-policy apparatus of the Administration of George W. Bush during its first two years was not one of the familiar members of the gold-shielded Praetorian Guard—not Dick Cheney or Colin Powell, not Condi or Rummy, not Tenet or Wolfowitz—but, rather, a forty-two-year-old Canadian named David Frum.” —Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker

“[Richard Perle is the] intellectual guru of the hard-line neoconservative movement in foreign policy. . . . [He] has profound influence over Bush policies and officials in the competition for the hearts of the president and his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice.”
—Dana Milbank, The Washington Post