Bowden is a gifted journalist, and all of the articles collected in the book are enjoyable reading. In some of the later ones he comes across as a bad American stereotype though:

On torture: "The Bush administration has adopted exactly the right posture on the matter."

On national health-care: "...ignore ballooning deficits and widespread public disenchantment with huge federal spending programs — not to mention the disastrous history of such socialist schemes worldwide."

He may think it's awesome that USA tortures innocent people to death and lets others die because they don't have health care, but since I assume he'd change his mind on those things instantly if he or somebody he cared about was the victim of either program, we can only conclude he's either lying or stupid. There really are no other choices.