CONTENTS // Acknowledgments page ix // Introduction 1 // PART I: THE TERRORIST ENIGMA // 1 Did Religious Extremism Cause 9/11? 13 // PART II: SHOW OF FORCE // 2 Why Military Superiority Breeds Illusions 71 // 3 How the War was Lost 82 // 4 Radicals Trapped in the Past 92 // 5 A Self-Inflicted Wound 107 // PART III: FALSE TEMPLATES // 6 Searching for a New Enemy after the Cold War 131 // 7 Humanitarianism with Teeth 157 // 8 The War of the Liberals 178 // 9 The Neoconservative Intifada 197 // PART IV: WAIVING THE RULES // 10 Liberalism Strangled by War 215 // 11 The Unilateralist Curse 235 // 12 Battling Lawlessness with Lawlessness 257 // 13 The Infallibility Trap 286 // Conclusion 303 // Notes 333 // Index 357 // vii