Dangerous Diplomacy: How the State Department Threatens America's Security

By Joel Mowbray

In Dangerous Diplomacy , investigative reporter Joel Mowbray exposes the hidden agendas, mixed allegiances, and outright anti Americanism that has infected the U.S. State Department. Relying on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895261103
• ISBN13: 9780895261106
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

This book is a revelation. Superb and timely book.

I read this book non-stop. Joel Mowbray makes an excellent case for the criminal trial of most senior employees of the State Department, including Colin Powell and Richard Armitage.Do we need enemies if we already have the State Department the way it is? It is absolutely clear that the State Department must be replaced with a new agency.George W. Bush seems to be pursuing a set of mutually exclusive goals: he wants to protect Americans from Moslem terror and at the same time George W. does nothing to put an end to the subversive activities of thoroughly anti-American State Department, like sabotaging war against Taliban and Baath party, assisting survival of Syria and Iran state-supported terrorism, forcing victorious US to beg for UN approval of our fight to defend our own country.And finally, Colin Powell, who is masquerading Saudi phase-by-phase war against Israel as "ROADMAP TO PEACE", is still running "stub George W. in the back" show every which way.Who needs traitors while having such "public servants" like Colin Powell.I consider this book as the must read for anyone.

Absolutely Amazing

I thought I'd hate this book, I'm not a conservative (would actually classify myself as more of a liberal) and I generally don't like political books, but I couldn't put it down. It's not sensationalistic or tabloidy, just good, hard-nosed reporting. From how the State Department supported the Taliban to how it gave $10,000 bonuses for "outstanding performance" to the executives in charge of giving visas to the 9/11 terrorists, Dangerous Diplomacy makes me afraid of my own government. And in case you don't believe Mowbray, there is a documents section at the end filled with classified memos that prove, in black-and-white, that the State Department has its own agenda.

The irony is...

...that the State Department, by arresting Joel Mowbray (over some supposed leaks), gave him the name recognition to sell this book. Prior to that arrest there really wasn't anyone who's job description was "high profile State Department basher", and now there's Joel Mowbray. This book is the perfect answer to a State Department which showed as little wisdom in arresting him as it does in everything else it handles.

I had no idea

Mowbray tells the tale of a government department woefully out-of-control. One amazing chapter details Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State, Charles Shultz testing the loyalties of Foreign Service operatives. All to often they would be more interested in helping their host country than serving the interests of the United States.Mowbray was briefly detained by the State Department last year. That detainment certainly spurred the reporter to dig deeper into the problems at State. I bet they wish they could go back and undo that mistake.If you've been following the war on terrorism, you owe it to yourself to read this book and find out if the entire government is united in that goal or not. I definitely recommend this book.

The Need To Know In the Global War on Terror

A hard-hitting eye-opener that documents our State Department's Arabist elite's us versus them orientation (no, no, it's not the pro-America us against the terrorists and their supporters you might expect in a time of war!). Given the large number of State Department heroes who lost their lives in service to America, the Arabist's attitude is baffling. Hard to come away from the book with a good feeling about State's current crop of a virtually unaccountable putative elite.