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Title

The ruses for war : American interventionism since World War II / John Quigley.

Author

Quigley, John B.

Publication

Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2007.

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Description

433 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"As a prelude to war in 2003, the administration of George W. Bush did its utmost to convince the public that Saddam Hussein's secret development of weapons of mass destruction posed a threat to American security. Within a year of the US invasion of Iraq, it became clear that no such weapons existed. Sadly, this was not the first time the American public was urged to support a war for reasons that turned out later to be scarcely credible. As law professor John Quigley amply demonstrates in this damning indictment of US military intervention ism since World War II, the Bush administration's actions fit a decades-old pattern of going to war on a pretense rather than informing the public of the government's true intentions."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Intervention (International law)
• United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1989
• United States > Foreign relations > 1989-
• United States > Citizen participation
• United States > Military policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-427) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Secrets of government -- 2. How it began -- 3. Korea : whose war? -- 4. Korea : the Russians are coming -- 5. Korea : the Chinese hordes -- 6. Guatemala : deception and timing -- 7. Indonesia : caught in a coconut tree -- 8. Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan : Cokes on the beach -- 9. Cuba : we were not involved -- 10. Laos a free-fire zone -- 11. Vietnam : what were those bleeps? -- 12. The Congo : trouble out East -- 13. The Congo : another Cuba? -- 14. The Dominican Republic : bullets in the embassy window -- 15. The Dominican Republic : seeing red -- 16. Cambodia : fish in the craters -- 17. Angola : a global Monroe Doctrine -- 18. Shaba : a Congolese reprise -- 19. Iran : hostages will die -- 20. Nicaragua : who is contra? -- 21. El Salvador : a textbook case -- 22. Lebanon : death on the beach -- 23. Grenada : an ocean venture -- 24. Grenada : saving our students -- 25. Grenada : the Cubans were ferocious -- 26. Libya : Qaddafi's air conditioner -- 27. The Philippines : shoring Cory -- 28. Panama : slaying a monster -- 29. Panama : explaining why -- 30. Liberia : just in case -- 31. Iraq : blood for oil? -- 32. Somalia : Blackhawk Down -- 33. Baghdad : missiles with a message -- 34. Sudan : pharmaceutical fiasco -- 35. Iraq : low-intensity intervention -- 36. Kosovo : credibility above all -- 37. Afghanistan : end to terror? -- 38. Iraq : regime change -- 39. Why not tell the truth? -- 40. Why intervene at all? -- 41. Won't the media protect us? -- 42. Won't congress protect us? -- 43. Interventions of the future -- 44. The price of fraudulent intervention.

ISBN

• 9781591025160 (alk. paper)
• 1591025168 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007000018

OCLC

77716534

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library