The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East

Intro
 Title Page
 Dedication
 Introduction
 Chapter 1 --
BRING BACK THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
 The Middle East a century ago
 Ottomans exit, instability and strife enter
 The secrets of Ottoman success
 World War I could have skipped the Middle East
 Gallipoli: Underestimating the Turks
 Europe's "sick man" has some teeth
 Chapter 2 --
THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT
 The creation of Israel: An anti-Muslim U.S. conspiracy?
 How it all began
 The rise of Haj Amin al-Husseini
 Churchill in Cairo: 1921
 Emir Abdullah of Transjordan
 Herbert Dowbiggin: Unlikely prophet How British imperialist weakness sparked the Arab-Israeli conflictThe Hebrew Bible: A book of war
 The true story of Israel's creation
 Chapter 3 --
THE MESS IN MESOPOTAMIA
 Just like today: A bad beginning
 Democracy in Iraq: 1925-1958
 A Jewish base for the Allies
 Where America went wrong
 After Saddam: "Better Tiberius"
 Banking on a bank swindler
 Birth of the Iraqi insurrection
 The insurgents: Not just a few troublemakers
 Bombing the Golden Mosque: The point of no return
 It isn't a civil war
 it's a splinter war
 Why the surge couldn't tame Baghdad
 Chapter 4 --
THE TRUTH ABOUT ISLAM The wisdom of Prince TurkiThe cycles of Arab history
 The Middle East gets religion: 1977-1980
 Chapter 5 --
IRAN
 The Persian Empire: When Iran was good
 Clash of empires: U.S. vs. Britain
 Liberal busybodies spark the Islamic Revolution
 Ayatollah Khomeini: The fruit of American meddling
 Carter and the hostage crisis
 Post-revolution Iran
 Moderation (relatively speaking) in Iran
 Democracy's bitter gift: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
 Iran on borrowed time
 Chapter 6 --
THE ISRAELI-ARAB WARS 1947-1973
 Death almost at birth
 The tide turns
 Who's a Palestinian?
 The real Yasser Arafat Egypt's fight to destroy IsraelThe Soviet Union vs. Israel
 The miraculous victory
 Results of the Six-Day War
 Nixon: Israel's best friend
 1973: The Israelis mess up big
 Results of the 1973 war
 Chapter 7 --
THE SAUDIS ARE PART OF THE SOLUTION, NOT THE PROBLEM
 The enemy of my enemy is my friend
 Michael Moore's mania: The Saudis were behind September 11
 Why separation of mosque and state is folly
 How to fight Muslim terrorists: Build walls and monitor the mosques
 The Saudis and Arafat: From appeasement to realism
 Understanding the Saudis
 Saudi Arabia's three threats Chapter 8 --
MIDDLE EAST WARS AND PEACE 1975-2007Arabs can fight
 The Ba'ath Party's socialist roots
 Arab tyrants: Assad and Saddam
 Ford's Middle East successes
 Yitzhak Rabin: The dove who armed Israel
 Did Jimmy Carter really bring peace to the Middle East?
 Clinton: Carter all over again
 Chapter 9 --
THE HISTORY OF SEPTEMBER 11
 Clinton's team missed the al Qaeda threat
 Bush drops the ball on al Qaeda too
 Heroes and lessons
 The Saudis weren't complicit in the attacks
 Why did it happen?
 Chapter 10 --
PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
 Hope at the end of the millennium
 They are here to stay