OMNI WAR WATCH
WEDNESDAYS, #200, OCTOBER 23, 2024.
Compiled by Dick Bennett
Jewish Voice for Peace. Stop
Israel’s Genocide in Gaza.
Bob Woodward.
War. Publisher’s
description.
Andrew Cockburn. Note on Bob Woodward’s War.
Scott Horton. Letter to Woodward
about War.
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Bob Woodward. War.
Simon and Schuster, 2024.
Publisher’s description:
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory,
behind-the-scenes story of three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East, and the
struggle for the American Presidency. War is
an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in
presidential politics and American history.
We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers
in tense conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Israeli prime
minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. We
also see Donald Trump, conducting a shadow presidency and seeking to regain
political power. With unrivaled,
inside-the-room reporting, Woodward shows President Biden’s approach to
managing the war in Ukraine, the most significant land war in Europe since
World War II, and his tortured path to contain the bloody Middle East conflict
between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas.
Woodward reveals the extraordinary complexity and consequence of wartime
back-channel diplomacy and decision-making to deter the use of nuclear weapons
and a rapid slide into World War III. The
raw cage-fight of politics accelerates as Americans prepare to vote in 2024,
starting between President Biden and Trump, and ending with the unexpected
elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for
president. War provides an
unvarnished examination of the vice president as she tries to embrace the Biden
legacy and policies while beginning to chart a path of her own as a
presidential candidate.
Woodward’s reporting once again sets the
standard for journalism at its most authoritative and illuminating.
[The following two notes anticipate the composition of full, critical reviews,
which I will be looking for. –D.]
Andrew Cockburn. “Woodward Reports the Cuss Words, Skips the
Facts. Another
Misleading Tome from the Court Historian.” American Committee for US-Russia Accord (Oct 21, 2024). To anyone who has
slogged through Bob Woodward’s serial tomes, his latest, War, will come as
no surprise. Its obsequious treatment of select senior officials
grappling with the Ukrainian and middle east wars runs true to form. Just
in case readers miss the point, he concludes with the assertion that “President
Biden and his team will […] Read
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Some of Cockburn’s books: The
Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine. 1983. Dangerous
Liaison: The Inside Story of the US-Israeli Covert Relationship, with Leslie
Cockburn.
1991. Rumsfeld:
His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy. 2007. Kill
Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins. 2015. The Spoils of War:
Power, Profit and the American War Machine, 2021.
Scott Horton. “Bob Woodward Badly Misquotes Russian FM
Lavrov in His New Book.” ACURA(Oct 21, 2024). Woodward misquoted
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on page 88 of your new book, and
significantly altered the meaning of his statement.
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for US-Russia Accord PO Box 2134 New York, NY 10025
Scott Horton is editorial director of Antiwar.com, director of the Libertarian Institute, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts
the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He’s
the author of the 2017 book, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan.
[I watched an
interview of Woodward about his book on PBS Newshour in which Woodward’s
arguments followed the official line on the Ukraine, and the interviewer failed
to press him. –D]
END OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #200, OCTOBER 23, 2024.