Blood in the sand : imperial fantasies, right-wing ambitions, and the erosion of American democracy / Stephen Eric Bronner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bronner, Stephen Eric, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

Democracy--United States.

Democracy.

United States--Foreign relations--2001-2009.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Blood in the Sand is Stephen Eric Bronner's powerful critique of the current state of American foreign and domestic policy, ranging from the government's initial response to 9/11 and the assault on Afghanistan through the Iraqi War and the ramifications of the Israeli--Palestinian conflict. Bronner, who just months before the war began spent time in Iraq as part of a peace delegation, examines the state of twenty-first century America, a nation in which security against future terrorist attacks has become an obsession, ""moral values"" have turned into a slogan, and belief in the right to e

Contents:

Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Gandhi's Voice; 2. Us and Them; 3. Baghdad Memories; 4. American Landscape; 5. States of Despair; 6. Anatomy of a Disaster; 7. Dub'ya's Fellow Travelers; 8. Constructing Neoconservatism; 9. It Happened Here; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613232809

9781283232807

1283232804

9780813171685

0813171687

OCLC:

65562600