It sheds a great deal of light on that part of the world and its cultural attitudes in a very eye opening manner. It deals more with arabic attitudes from a military standpoint from someone who worked with arabic government for years, but when you pay attention to things you read or see in the news, you can see these attitudes playing out in many many different ways, diplomatically, economically, socially. Long, but very informative and well presented. When you read this you will be pissed off at the amateur way information is spewed at us on television, and is labeled as news.