Dismantling the Empire
American Empire Project - America's Last Best Hope
Chalmers Johnson
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Description
The author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy reflects on America's waning power in a masterful collection of essays
In his prophetic book Blowback, published before 9/11, Chalmers Johnson warned that our secret operations in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe would exact a price at home. Now, in a brilliant series of essays written over the last three years, Johnson measures that price and the resulting dangers America faces. Our reliance on Pentagon economics, a global empire of bases, and war without end is, he declares, nothing short of "a suicide option."
Dismantling the Empire explores the subjects for which Johnson is now famous, from the origins of blowback to Barack Obama's Afghanistan conundrum, including our inept spies, our bad behavior in other countries, our ill-fought wars, and our capitulation to a military that has taken ever more control of the federal budget. There is, he proposes, only one way out: President Obama must begin to dismantle the empire before the Pentagon dismantles the American Dream. If we do not learn from the fates of past empires, he suggests, our decline and fall are foreordained. This is Johnson at his best: delivering both a warning and an urgent prescription for a remedy.
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Customer Reviews
Honest Book
This is a great read for Americans who wonder why so many nations around the globe hate the U.S.- only the receiving end (people/nation) know the true oppression.
Thank You
Thanks for letting me know this was a liberal book! I will buy it immediately. Save me the trouble of being tricked into spending money that would go to a conservative.
Hindsight
This is pure liberal trash. Written in a hindsight perspective. The author demonstrates, his distrust and lack of respect for this country he himself has benefited from. Do not waste your money on this book. It's full of lies and distortion. If the author wishes I'll pay for a flight to north Korea, with the promise he lives there for 5 years! Then let's see how he writes his next book.
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- $7.99
- Category: Foreign Policy & International Relations
- Published: Aug 17, 2010
- Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
- Seller: Macmillan
- Print Length: 224 Pages
- Language: English
- Series: American Empire Project
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