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Now for "Three Cups of Tea. One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time."

To those, like BuzzFlash who advocate that we can win hearts and minds as a nation by doing what we did in the Marshall Plan, help people improve their lives and rebuild the infrastructure of nations, this book is...well, a cup of warm tea.

It has become a surprise bestseller for months, and it is currently (as of 8/20/09) still 30 on the Amazon bestseller list even though the book was released 3 years ago.

This is what Publishers Weekly had to say about "Three Cups of Tea":

Starred Review. Some failures lead to phenomenal successes, and this American nurse's unsuccessful attempt to climb K2, the world's second tallest mountain, is one of them. Dangerously ill when he finished his climb in 1993, Mortenson was sheltered for seven weeks by the small Pakistani village of Korphe; in return, he promised to build the impoverished town's first school, a project that grew into the Central Asia Institute, which has since constructed more than 50 schools across rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Coauthor Relin recounts Mortenson's efforts in fascinating detail, presenting compelling portraits of the village elders, con artists, philanthropists, mujahideen, Taliban officials, ambitious school girls and upright Muslims Mortenson met along the way. As the book moves into the post-9/11 world, Mortenson and Relin argue that the United States must fight Islamic extremism in the region through collaborative efforts to alleviate poverty and improve access to education, especially for girls. Captivating and suspenseful, with engrossing accounts of both hostilities and unlikely friendships, this book will win many readers' hearts.

Buzzflash repeats the second to last sentence of the Publishers Review: As the book moves into the post-9/11 world, Mortenson and Relin argue that the United States must fight Islamic extremism in the region through collaborative efforts to alleviate poverty and improve access to education, especially for girls.

But when your goal is the goal of Dick Cheney, which is to gain control of fossil fuels, only the peace advocates care about the welfare of people. And we are soft-bellied wimps to him for thinking that the welfare of individuals matter for anything. Oil is more important than human life when it comes to national hegemony and oil company profits.

But here is a book filled with grit, heart, compassion, mission and the desire to improve the lot of young girls and women in a world where they are forcefully kept from being educated.

This is a remarkably encouraging and heartwarming book about the difference one person can make in the world, a difference that hundreds of billions of dollars cannot accomplish.