This is a good summary of the War on Terror by a leading US journalist, who is one of the few to have interviewed bin Laden himself. None of the protagonists comes out well in this analysis, and Bergen submits that it has been a strategic failure on both sides. Bin Laden made a bad mistake in provoking the Leviathan of America to destroy his base in Afghanistan and the US, in turn, made the fatal mistake of invading Iraq, on spurious grounds, after first letting Bin Laden escape from the mountain complex of Tora Bora, then compounding the military error by alienating people worldwide with such embarrassments as Gitmo, extraordinary rendition and Abu Ghraib. The Long War is still going, with no end in sight.