Book · 2005 · Political Science
Devil's Game
How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
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Everybody read Devil's Game by Robert Dreyfuss. It's an excellent book on the background of all of that.
Why people recommend it
Devil's Game by Robert Dreyfuss is a detailed historical investigation into how Western powers, particularly the United States and Britain, historically supported and unleashed fundamentalist Islamist groups in the Middle East. On Breaking Points, Scott Horton strongly recommended the book as an excellent resource for understanding the geopolitical background of the Muslim Brotherhood and modern conflicts. Horton reiterated his recommendation multiple times on Timcast IRL, pointing listeners to Robert Dreyfuss's work alongside other historical texts to explain U.S. and Israeli involvement with Hamas, as well as British policies favoring Islamists over nationalists and socialists in the post-World War II era. He highlighted the book during discussions concerning foreign policy in Pakistan and the broader Middle East, presenting it as an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the roots of modern geopolitical instability. Across these platform appearances, speakers emphasized the book's critical documentation of how intelligence agencies and government policymakers inadvertently shaped the rise of fundamentalist political movements through decades of strategic intervention.
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Scott Horton Everybody read Devil's Game by Robert Dreyfuss. It's an excellent book on the background of all of that. 4
“Everybody read Devil's Game by Robert Dreyfuss. It's an excellent book on the background of all of that.”
“And you can read it in Robert D's great book Devil's Game and in Treata Parsey's great book The Treacherous Alliance.”
“But yes, I mean look, there's a great book called Devil's Game by Robert Drifus where he explains how it was really the British policy to support Islamists against the nationalists and the socialists in the postw World War II era and then America picked it up from them.”
“and I want to recommend to you and and to everyone listening a great book by Robert dfus called Devil's game how the United States helped unleash fundamentalist Islam”
