The Final Move Beyond Iraq: The Final Solution While the World Sleeps

by Mike Evans

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From esteemed author and journalist of of over 70 books
In The Final Move Beyond Iraq , Mike Evans addresses the greatest threat America has faced since the Civil War: the Islamic revolution, or Islamofascism. While the United States debates the best way to solve the situation in Iraq, the terrorists are claiming victory and planning to take their show to American soil once again. Drawing from extensive interviews with prime ministers, CIA directors, and other insiders, Evans looks at the history and ideology behind the Islamic revolution to explore its very real threat to U.S. interests —why radical Islamic terrorists will only step back when they fear us, why victory in Iraq is important to U.S. security, why the United States and Israel cannot sit idly by and let Iran achieve its desire for nuclear weapons, and why stabilization in Iraq now would sound defeat rather than victory.  The Final Move Beyond Iraq is a wake-up call to mobilize millions to action. America is fighting for its life in the first war of the twenty-first century.  

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction

360 pages, Paperback

First published April 26, 2007

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Michael D. Evans

Reviews

[Sam Doyel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Written in 2007, as American support for intervention in the Middle East continued to wane, Mr. Evans book was a call to action to wake up to the threat of Iran and an Islamic revolution. Due to the recent uprising of ISIS in Iraq and Syria and the continued use of proxy war, this book still has relevance today.

First off, if you disagree with Mr. Evans' Christian worldview, you will most likely strongly dislike this book. Personally, I have mixed feelings on this book. The main redeeming factor for me was the appendices which included letters from Ahmadinejad and interviews with Netanyahu, former CIA director James Woolsey, retired IDF Gen. Ya'alon, and others.

Here's some of the various issues I had with the book:
1. As support for one of his points, he quotes Ann Coulter twice. I have major issues with Coulter and am disinclined to agree with someone who would use her as support. But that's just me personally.

2. On page 140, he incorrectly states that the Israeli strike on Osirak was in 1980 (he states it correctly as 1981 on page 150). This might seem like a minor issue to some, but if an author has errors in concrete facts, I'm less likely to agree with him on his opinions/abstract ideas.

3. Mr. Evans spends too much time attempting to prove that former president Carter was the worst president in U.S. history. He also spends too much time vindicating President Bush and it seems as if his personal biases get in the way of his research.

4. His research--he cites Wikipedia 7 times. I know that Wikipedia is a great source to get general information quickly, but using it in a book so many times makes it seem like he was just doing quick research without fully digging into the sources.

Overall, not a huge fan, but the interviews were interesting.

[Kristi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was given this book by a recommendation from a friend. After I started reading it, I found out that he had never read it. I found a lot of the book difficult to read. The author starts preaching about morality when this is suppose to be a book about Irag and the Middle East. I was offended when he threw women's rights and Gloria Steinhem in the same boat as pedophiles and pornagraphy. Anyway...I got past that and found the church scriptures interesting. The real gem is the interviews in the back of the book in the appendices. Oh yah...You think you are half way through the book only to find out it has ended and the rest is a serious of interviews with Benjamin Netanyahu (former Israel Prime Minister), James Woosley (former CIA Director), Retired Army General Hugh Shelton, Retired US Navy Captain Charles Nash, Retired Israel Defense Forces Lieutenant General Moshe Ya'alon, Alan Dershowitz (civil liberties lawyer), Mort Zuckerman (editor-in-chief US News and World Report) as well as the letters to the American people and President Bush from Iranian President Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I suggest skip to the back of the book.

[Ahmed Abul Fetouh · Rating 1 out of 5]

I can't think of any worse books than this one to be honest. I couldn't even get past p. 46.
Saving America by praying to God and uniting under Christianity? Good luck ever accomplishing anything with your prayers, mate. I'd rather look at logical facts, not mere wishes.

[George · Rating 4 out of 5]

Michael Evans' book has an excellent history and analysis of Iran before and after the takeover by radical Islamists. Evans reveals how destructive were the policies of President Jimmy Carter, hindering the rapprochement between Israel and its neighbors, and perpetuating the animosity between the Arabs and the Jews.

[Brent Seheult · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a very difficult read. If they would leave the religious underpinnings alone then maybe things wouldn't be so bad.

[Katie · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was available through the Kindle Owner's Lending Library (the free lending library for Amazon Prime members) and had hundreds of glowing reviews. I have respectfully battled my way through plenty of books with questionable logic and blatant agenda pushing in the interest of gaining perspective on alternate worldviews, but this book would have been laughably biased if its arguments weren't so insultingly framed. Beware: The author makes no effort to introduce his rather extreme Evangelical presuppositions with a more moderate, diverse audience in mind -- his reasoning is jarring and very difficult to swallow for those who don't already agree with his assumptions. I couldn't finish the book.

[Jacobson · Rating 4 out of 5]

So far, it is very in-depth on certain ways our government takes advantage of the very men and women sworn to protecting this country and the effect this has when politics would rather see a profit then turn of events for our country in the long run.

[Sara Marsh Billiet · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a great book for educating yourselves on Middle Eastern events. Things happening now are truly influencing the world's future.

[Dan]

A sober look at how the Islamofascists are planning to take their fight to the US on American soil.

[Su]

I will add one later when im done!

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2006