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Boomerang! : how our covert wars have created enemies across the Middle East and brought terror to America / Mark Zepezauer.
Van Pelt Library DS63.2.U5 Z46 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zepezauer, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Foreign relations--Middle East.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Middle East.
- Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--1989-.
- Physical Description:
- x, 245 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Monroe, Maine : Common Courage Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Boomerang! delivers fourteen blistering and comprehensive chapters on the tangled story of US interventions in the Arab and Muslim world. It tells how our meddling helped to create enemies for us in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan and Lebanon. It details the repression paid for with our tax dollars in Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Palestine and Saudi Arabia. It explains the background to our ongoing war efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and foreshadows possible future wars in the energy-rich nations surrounding the Caspian Sea. The U.S. government has warned that we may be at war in this part of the world for decades to come. Boomerang! explains why many who live there feel like we've already been at war with them for decades.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Our Commitment to Creating Hell on Earth vi
- Part I Enemy States
- 1. Iran: Equal and Opposite Reaction 2
- 2. Iraq: We Think It's Worth It 12
- 3. Syria: A Wicked Sense of Humor 22
- 4. Sudan: They Come and Take Our Oil 30
- 5. Libya: Whose Side Are You On? 39
- Part II Allied States
- 6. Lebanon: Like Paris With Craters 51
- 7. Jordan: King of the Tightrope Artists 60
- 8. Egypt: Paying for Peace 67
- 9. Palestine: No Peace Without Justice 76
- 10. Turkey: Military Rules 101
- 11. Saudi Arabia: The Family That Reigns Together 109
- Part III Frontline States
- 12. Pakistan: Fair Weather Allies 120
- 13. Afghanistan: Proxy Wars, Proxy Victims 132
- 14. Caspian Region: Previews of Coming Attractions 150
- Afterword: Ending the Killings Abroad
- and Avoiding New Ones at Home 174.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1567512224
- 1567512232
- OCLC:
- 51585148
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