How Strategists Use Radical Islam For State Objectives

"Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam"
by Robert Dreyfuss

The West saw the "Islamic Right" as convenient partners in the Cold War and funded it

ROBERTDREYFUSS Aug 2010 | I wrote Devil’s Game to fill in a gap amid the millions of words that have been written about political Islam and U.S. policy since September 11, 2001.

It’s the story before the story, and it helps answer the question: How did we get into this mess? It’s my contention that part of the answer to that question, at least, is that for half a century the United States and many of its allies saw what I call the “Islamic right” as convenient partners in the Cold War.

I approached this book not as an historian, but as a journalist. A great deal of it is based on scores of interviews with men and women from the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, the...

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