Read Imperial Hubris by Anonymous, The Price of Loyalty by Ron Suskind, Against All Enemies by Richard Clarke, Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward, American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips, House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger, A Pretext for War by James Bamford, Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It by Peter Peterson, Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude by Robert Baer, Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed is Shipping American Jobs Overseas by Lou Dobbs, and What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank.
Anonymous and Baer are self-described conservative hawks--both of them work or worked for the CIA, one an analyst in the bin Laden station, and the other an agent serving in Afghanistan during the 1980s. They both have deep criticisms of the Bush administration for playing right into bin Laden's hands by invading Iraq--Anonymous asserts that this result was exactly what bin Laden sought in directly attacking the U.S. because it would lead to a similar situation to that the mujihadeen faced in Afghanistan in encountering the Soviet invasion (a great recruiting tool).
Lou Dobbs argues in his book that it is unpatriotic for American companies to send jobs overseas where wages are lower because the cost of living is lower. It is unfair practice to ask American workers to compete against workers than have huge advantages. This is a fairly conservative commentator saying that American companies are disloyal to American workers, that they are operating unfairly by moving jobs and offices out of the U.S.
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