Book description
A U. S. senator and Pulitzer Prizewinner, both experts on Southeast
Asia, offer a bold new approach to address radical Islam and fight
global terror
The next front in the war on terror is in Southeast Asia, warn
Senator Christopher Bond (R-MO) and Lewis Simons, both leading experts
on the region. The U. S. has bankrupted its policies in dealing with
the Islamic world. As Fundamentalist Islam gains traction in Southeast
Asia, backed by Saudi money, the U. S. must act swiftly to
re-establish its credibility there and help defuse global terrorism.
Bond and Simons present a bold plan to accomplish this key goal by
substituting smart power (civilians in sneakers and sandals) for force
(soldiers in combat boots) in Indonesia and the other nations of
Southeast Asia, home to the world's greatest concentration of Muslims.
- Introduces a critical new "smart power" approach to
combat global terror
- Written by two experts on Southeast Asia with extensive contacts
in Washington and overseas
- Tackles a crucial challenge to U. S. foreign policy and
President Obama's administration
- Examines a wide range of views and people, from Osama bin
Laden-trained armed terrorists to radical clerics to
western-trained officials who plead for Americans to come to their
countries to teach, start small businesses, and improve health care
The Next Front offers exactly the kind of fresh, out-of-the-box
thinking the United States needs to rebuild its credibility and
transcend its foreign policy failures.
Senator Christopher S. "Kit" Bond (R-MO)
was elected to the U. S. Senate in 1986, the only Republican that year
to win a seat previously held by a Democrat. He was re-elected in
1992, 1998, and 2004. In the Senate he has improved care for veterans
and service men and women and has built a reputation as an advocate
for a strong U. S. military, as a reformer of the intelligence
community, and as an expert on Southeast Asia. He is vice chairman of
the Senate Select Intelligence Committee.
Lewis M. Simons has been a foreign correspondent since 1967,
reporting from Vietnam and throughout Southeast Asia; India, Pakistan,
Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran; China, Japan, North and South Korea, and
the former Soviet Union. He wrote for the Associated Press, the
Washington Post, and Knight-Ridder Newspapers and won the Pulitzer
Prize for exposing the Marcos family's hidden billions. Author of
Worth Dying For, he is a regular contributor to National Geographic
and his op-ed articles have appeared in the New York Times and the
Washington Post.
