I think this book is worse than the others written by Savage-Weiner, which is saying a lot. Unfortunately, most reviewers never bothered reading this book.

On page 2, I am reminded why I hate this guy. Observing "while I'm no military tactician," he forgets to point out he was dodging the draft picking flowers in Hawaii while I and others were serving in Vietnam. He then states, "we still had to fight the real war, a guerrilla war--something our nation does not have the stomach for." Oh, please dude, people like you and your followers don't have the guts to serve. Like on page 10, where he forgets that people like Ted Kennedy at least served in the Navy during WWII. You may disagree with his politics, but at least the Kennedys had the guts to serve.

Skip ahead to page 172 (you ain't missing much) for more of his idiocy on Vietnam. He states, about the Vietnamese, that "in the sixties, no one really knew who they were." Well, he didn't, but 3 million Americans who served in the Vietnam War did. That's what happens when you sit out the war of your generation. He also erroneously claims that Vietnam "was a civil war." At the time of the war it was considered communist aggression. Conservatives of the sixties, like me but not him, knew about the communist threat. This is also the same page where Savage-Weiner claims "Iraq was not a civil war." Where have you been lately?

The "Afterword" really says it all. On page 203 he claims, about liberals, "for far too long you have lived in a cage where liberal ideas--and only liberal ideas--are expressed." He is really talking about himself and his followers. At least liberals, by definition, read and review all points.

For all those who hate "liberals," I would like to remind them that our Founding Fathers were the liberals of their day. A real Patriot of our Revolution (one of my real ancestors in Virginia) would have burned his house down and sent him packing on his big honking yacht.

In another rehashed treatise on Savage's perverted sense of truth, he sells a miserable, peripatetic screed to his lemming-like followers. This man's politics and principles have been condemned by such well-established conservative journals as The Economist. We all need someone to trust, and for Savage that person is the MD who will prescribe him some thorazine. Gets 2 stars only because of the book's educational value as an example of the ramblings of a lunatic. Barry Goldwater must be spinning in his grave.

I WONT SAY I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING MR. WEINER SAYS AND SOME OF HIS VIEWS ARE WAY TOO EXTREME FOR MY TASTES. BUT I THINK HE MAKES SOME SENSE ON CERTAIN ISSUES. ESPECIALLY ISLAMOFACISM AND THE TRUE NATURE OF THIS ACCURSED RELIGION. AS A KEEN STUDENT OF HISTORY AND PHILOSPHY I WOULD AGREE WITH MR WEINER'S VIEWS ON THE RELIGION; ITS EVILS,INTOLERENCE,HATRED AND INCITEMENT TO COMMIT HEINOUS CRIMES IN THE NAME OF ALLAH. IT IS BIGGEST THREAT IN THE LONG TERM FOR ALL CIVILZATION IF YOU HAVE READ YOUR WORLD HISTORY. SAY WHAT YOU WILL BUT HE IS AN INDEPENDENT THINKER AND NOT LIKE THE OTHER RIGHT WING STOOGES OF HANNITY,LIMBAUG AND THE REST OF THE CIRCUS WHO TRY TO SPIN THE INADEQUACIES OF THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT.YOU HAVE TO ADMIT HE IS EDUCATED,WELL QUALIFIED(WITH ALL HIS DEGREES) AND SPEAKS HIS MIND. IT IS GOOD TO HEAR HIS POLITICALLY INCORRECT SPEECH AND JUST CHUCKLE AT SOME OBSERVATIONS. AMERICA,DESPITE HIS EXTREME AND RIGHTIST TENDENCIES YOU NEED A PERSON LIKE HIM TO BLAST THE BIPARTISIAN HYPOCRISY AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. I THINK SOME OF HIS TALK IS MORE FOR SHOCK AND ENTERTAINMENT VALUE THEN REAL OPINION. WELL,PERHAPS HE IS EXORCISING HIS OWN PERSONAL DEMONS THROUGH TALK RADIO. WELL, MENTAL ILLNESS SHOULD NOT STOP ANYONE FROM DOING TALK RADIO.ANYWAY, THE SHOW IS NEVER BORING..