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* Insightful exploration of the US's role in the war against terror*Written by an experienced journalist and political commentator*Proposes specific steps to re-establish global stabilityNational security and homeland defence advisor Harlan Ullman warns that the United States is fighting a war it does not understand and is waging it in the wrong places against the wrong people with flawed objectives. He advises that America will not be safe until it is understood that the threat is not terror but its underlying causes and the political motivations that are using terror as a tactic.Ullman describes terror as a symptom not a cause and argues that waging a war against it will fare no better than wars on drugs, poverty, crime and other social ills. He defines the danger as a political ideology that is intent on establishing some form of a fundamentalist state, with or without borders, by relying on Saudi oil money and Pakistani nuclear weapons to sustain and protect it. As the centrepiece of the book, Ullman proposes the ten concrete actions that will make the United States- and the world - safer and more secure.Finishing Business is a follow up to his highly touted Unfinished Business: Afghanistan, the Middle East and Beyond-Defusing the Dangers to America's Security. It features a foreword by Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House of Representatives.