Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago, we ran a provocative piece by Stephen Watts and Sean Mann in which they argued that in both its politics and in its development, Afghanistan is doing better than is common...

The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism--From al Qa'ida to ISIS By Michael Morell Twelve/The Hachette Group (2015) Reviewed by Gabriel Schoenfeld

Using counterterrorism as a lens for seeing the Middle East, as the Obama administration so often does, has helped the United States achieve several important successes against the Al Qaeda core and avoi...