The reviewer who attributes my views on the roots of terrorism is surely a well-meaning person, but was much too quick to apply a personal bias on Chomsky to my own work. For the record, I was one of the first CIA Clandestine Service case officers assigned terrorism as a full-time target, hence have something of an operational understanding not available to the general public including Chomsky and the reviewer in question; 2) my educational work includes an undergraduate thesis on multinational corporate operations in the Third World; a first graduate thesis on the causes of revolution; and a second graduate thesis on strategic and tactical information management for national security (what can we and what do we know about the real world in order to make effective policy); 3) my life includes thirty years of residence overseas from which my direct observations on poverty, disease, and other conditions including corruption are applicable.
The comment about needing a filter and Chomsky should therefore be regarded as inaccurate. The book includes a 135 page annotated bibliography and a 25 page guide to web sites about corruption, cyber-advocacy, disease, education, environment, genocide, homeland defense, instability, intelligence, proliferation, slavery and human trafficking, starvation, terrorism, and transnational crime. In my view as the author, the previous review misrepresents the depth and breadth of the book in a grevious manner that requires my respectful response.