The Ultimate Vanishing Act
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The Ultimate Vanishing Act is an authoritative account of contemporary diplomacy and science.
The author, Eric LaMont Gregory, provides an eye-opening narrative of current world events and how the decisions we make today will influence the forces that propel us into the future.
Gregory’s international career began in the Middle East, and over the next four decades, he was in Bosnia during the war; Rwanda before and after the genocide; Honduras after Hurricane Mitch; Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua during the Contra death squad era, and Afghanistan shortly after 9/11. He witnessed two famines in Ethiopia, conflicts in North, East, South and West Africa, as well as in the Middle East, and Central, South, and East Asia.
Gregory is unswerving in his assessment of the way the international community carries out emergency humanitarian relief operations, stating that while the goodwill of the donors plays out on the world stage, all too often we are making enemies, not friends.
The Ultimate Vanishing Act is undeniably informative and a right riveting read.
"Detailed, revealing, charming, funny, witty, compassionate, sensitive, adventurous, and seductive." – author, My Invisible Empire
About the Author:
Eric LaMont Gregory is an Oxford-educated diplomat, medical scientist and author, who for more than four decades operated in the highly secretive corridors of the upper chambers of international power and intrigue.
Eric LaMont Gregory is one of the most influential political commentators of the 21st century. The Ultimate Vanishing Act is a timely contribution to world security.
To address the problems he has witnessed over his long and distinguished international career, Eric LaMont Gregory will be a candidate for President of the United States of America in 2020, running on a platform to build an America that is secure, and in which economic security is a reality for all.
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Foreign Affairs, International Relations, Islamic Sytate, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Obama, Secret negotiations revealed, Islam, Christianity, Jews, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Brussels, Paris, Terror, Terrorism, Bin-Ladem, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, ISIL, suicide bomber, Boko Haram, kidnapping, beheadings, violence, women, Battle of Vienna, 1683, 9/11, 11 September, 2001People
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New York, Varna, Paris, Praque, Washington DC, Miami, Berlin, Moscow, Helsinki, Brussels, Nairobi, Kigali, Addis Ababa, Somalia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Germany, England, Oxford, Cambridge, Rome, Isatanbul, Kabul, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, London, St Andrews, Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa, Atlantic, Pacific, Black Sea, Thames, IsisShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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The Ultimate Vanishing Act
November 9, 2015, Eric LaMont Gregory MSc Oxon
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The Ultimate Vanishing Act is a rare piece of historical narrative literature, it is also a timely contribution to world security.
How different the world might be today, the author suggests, had the British realized that they did not need to propel the ultra-fundamentalist Sunni Islamic sect, the Wahhabi, to power, in order to establish the Saudi kingdom. Or, when Eisenhower was inform of the first international Jihad conference in Cairo in 1957, and of that assembly's declaration of war against the United States, the activities of Sayyid Qutb, and the Muslim Brotherhood, he had not dismissed it as the ramblings of a few fanatics.
Perhaps, Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser, might reconsider his 1998 remarks when he was asked … do you regret having supported Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
Brzezinski's answer is revealing:
What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban and some stirred-up Muslims or the collapse of the Soviet empire? (Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 1998).
Unfortunately, as the author makes one painfully aware, to this day all too many world leaders still harbor the opinion that we are dealing with no more than some stirred-up Muslims. However, as this book attempts to make evident, the advent of the Taliban and radical Islam is at least as important to world history as the collapse of the Soviet Union. And, the challenge to world security that indiscriminate attacks on civilians present is no less formidable.
The Ultimate Vanishing Act, is written in the belief that the average citizen can understand the forces which drive world events, and can, or perhaps must, contribute to the discussion about what can and should be done in their name. The author reminds us that matters such as countering the indiscriminate use of violence against civilian populations by radical Islamic insurgents, is too important a matter to leave to the current crop of military-might-believing-in, and most of whom represent the Conservative end of the political spectrum, who dominate the intelligence and security services in Europe and the United States.
Gregory's book is an important contribution to an understanding of current world events.
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