The United States of Fear
Автор:
Engelhardt TomЖанр:
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3Дата добавления:
2013-12-01Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
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The creator of TomDispatch dissects America’s endless urge to go to war. In 2008, when the US National Intelligence Council issued its latest report meant for the administration of newly elected President Barack Obama, it predicted that the planet’s “sole superpower” would suffer a modest decline and a soft landing fifteen years hence. In his new book The United States of Fear, Tom Engelhardt makes clear that Americans should don their crash helmets and buckle their seat belts, because the United States is on the path to a major decline at a startling speed. Engelhardt offers a savage anatomy of how successive administrations in Washington took the “Soviet path”—pouring American treasure into the military, war, and national security—and so helped drive their country...
