The first 3/4 of this book was a little hard to get through for me with all the technical detail about the situation in the Middle East and the history of US foreign policy across the globe(because I'm far too ignorant about it)but the last 1/4 was easy to understand (and extremely interesting and very very important) even for someone like me :P I especially love the last few paragraphs of the afterward. I want to print them out on a poster and hang them on a wall in my house! For me personally, I have to give this book no more than four stars because of what I said earlier about the Middle East detail (but that's just for me)