By now there are already dozens of books — a few of them, groundbreaking works of reportage — about Al Qaeda and 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the Bush and Obama administrations’ management of national security. Scott Wallace Peter L. Bergen THE LONGEST WAR The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda By Peter L. Bergen Illustrated. 473 pages. Free Press. $28. Tyler Hicks/The New York Times American and Afghan soldiers after a bomb was detonated in Kandahar Province in December. What makes “The Longest War,” a new book by Peter L. Bergen, CNN’s national security analyst, particularly useful is that it provides a succinct and compelling…
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Al Qaeda And the U.S., Still Battling