Meltdown

Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
$17.99
"Meltdown" tells how the U.S.' refusal to engage in serious diplomacy spurred North Korea to stage its nuclear breakout testing missiles and a nuclear bomb, followed by de-escalation after six years of needless brinkmanship led by the Bush administration. En route, President Bush also managed to personally insult the heads of North and South (also a Nobel Peace Prize winner) Korea, as well as his own chief negotiator and Secretary of State, undercut the logic of U.S. actions vs. Iraq (by largely ignoring N.K.), again rely on dubious intelligence for major decision-making, and display a general lack of common sense (eg. risking progress on nuclear issues to pursue a questionable impoundment of $25 million of N.K. funds.

This same cowboy diplomacy pattern ("we don't negotiate - capitulate, then we'll talk" was was followed vs. Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iran - where it also failed, with disastrous results.

In between, the reader is left wondering why Secretary of State Powell tolerated the treatment he and his department received (several of his underlings involved with N.K. resigned), amazed at the V.P. Cheney and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's close involvement in the N.K. issue - instead of avoiding Iraq War II and managing it better, perplexed by Secretary Rice's ineptness, and disappointed by the disjointed and childish decision-making (eg. screaming matches; "We won't talk to them because they're bad") at high levels of government.

North Korea doesn't come out blameless in Chinoy's account either, though at least there is rationale for its actions.

Bottom Line: "Meltdown" provides a credible and detailed accounting of how we almost incited Korean War II, possibly even WWIII. Administration actions in this instance parallel those taken vs. Russia, Iraq, and Palestine.

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Meltdown (Task Force Valor Series #3)
$12.99
Meltdown is the third book in the Task Force Valor series. I have been eagerly waiting for it since I read the last book. :) Chuck Holton's fiction and nonfiction reveal his real life experience in the military. Action, suspense, and a little romance make this a hard to put down story for me. I loved it. I highly recommend this book and the entire series.

Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed
$14.95
I think there's no better book in the market than this one about the current global financial crisis, and how it developed. Just buy it. Then savor it.