Analysis Of Losing Bin Laden

In the novel that I, Will Miller, read, Losing Bin Laden- How Bill Clinton’s failures Unleashed Global Terror, author Richard Miniter presents evidence to suggest that Bill Clinton, while in office as 42nd president from 1993-2001, failed to take war on terrorism as the number one priority resulting in Osama Bin Laden unleashing global terror and the events that occurred on September 11th, 2001. Richard Miniter is an investigative journalist and author. He was an award winning Sunday Times (of London) investigative team whose four-part series traced the secret war between Clinton and Bin Laden (Richard Miniter, 2003). Richard has appeared on television over 200 times since 2001 (Richard Miniter, 2003). He appears regularly on Fox News to discuss

He talks about how growing up Bin Laden was mocked and isolated. Bin Laden retreated into books and religion. At a young age Bin Laden and his family would camp in tents in the 110-degree heat of the Saudi desert. The author emphasizes that these traits of extreme religiosity and survival skills formed the ruthless man we know today. Miniter through abundant facts explains how Bin Laden became who he is by joining radical Islamic groups while attending King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. I think Miniter 's short life history recap on Bin Laden helps the reader get a feeling of Bin Laden 's path to the top leader of Al-Qaeda. I did not know much about Osama Bin Laden’s early life before the author informed

The only negative thing I would have to say about this novel is the author didn’t really keep a majority of the book balanced with opposing viewpoints. If Miniter had balance between viewpoints it could have resulted in the reader to not agree with Miniter’s viewpoint. I agree with the author’s strategy to keep the information leaning toward one side because the argument would be weakened because it would distract the reader from the point Miniter is arguing. The book is full of reasons to dislike Bill Clinton’s decisions, but then again all of Richard Miniter’s statements that opposed Bill Clinton were always factual and had strong reason behind them. I strongly recommend this book to all of my peers not only because of the in depth research that the author has done to express his viewpoint effectively but on the fact that this involves something that is not well known by Americans. My peers and I were too young in 2001, to understand the catastrophic events that took place. As we get older we slowly start to learn about the events that took place but we can learn even more about the whole story by reading an informative novel like