Surviving Empty Nest

                                                                                      John Nixon was a senior leadership analyst with the CIA from 1998 to 2011 and this is his first book, probably only book. Seventeen years ago, in the month of December, the US military forces captured Iraqi President Saddam Hussein near his hometown of Tikrit. John Nixon was tasked to debrief the President. You may have figured out by now that I like reading controversial stuff. I have always admired Saddam for his ability to govern a country divided by two main disciplines of Islam - Sunni and Shia. And when he was captured and hanged, the country went into turmoil that lasts till today. Saddam was portrayed as a dictator who ruled with iron fists - or did he? Years ago when I was attending a course on leadership, as part of the course, we were given a situation and asked to choose five items from the pool of stiff that we could have access to post a plane crash in the desert. Among the items was a