This works stated problem is effectively addressed as it leads the reader to a logical conclusion that the problem of terrorism is ideological, rather than military and secular and that the West and the Middle East in their collective denial of change create even greater conflict and in fact feed the fire of extremism, on the one hand through heavy handed action and on the other through inaction and outside blame. The heavy emphasis of the "war on terror" as one that can somehow be magically resolved by a secular and military intervention from the West is not only irrational but it is counter productive in that it simply reiterates long held hatreds toward the West as aggressive and threatening to the way of life in the Islamic world. The purpose of the article to call both sides to a more logical point of action is very clear and logically detailed through opinion and example.
There is no review of literature within this work as it is an opinion-based work created by an expert in the field. A traditional review of literature could add a great deal to this work as it would further the expressions of the expert by offering similar and contrary opinions to support and rebut the opinions of...
The work does focus a great deal of direct attention on one single aspect of terrorism as the only global threat, from this standpoint it the work could be considered macroanalytic.
The results of this work, again ar limited as it is largely an opinion work that stresses logical findings of one expert on the subject. The summation of the article, can again be demonstrative of the major point of the work, demonstrating through a logical flow that the source of the problem of Islamic extremism can only be dealt with at that source, and only after the region acknowledges such a threat as both internal and global, and stops associating all ills, on an ideological and political level with the interventions both current and historical of the West.
Anthony B. Cordesman (September 18, 2006) "Winning the "War on terrorism"; the Need for a Fundamentally Different Strategy" at http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task, view/id,3490/type,1
