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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated

American Imperialism, Book 1

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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated

By: Gore Vidal
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In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed then too controversial to publish), Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following September 11th and goes back and draws connections to Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. He asks were these simply the acts of “evil-doers?”

©2002 Gore Vidal (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. The New Theocrats, A Letter to be Delivered, Shredding of the Bill of Rights, from The Last Empire by Gore Vidal, © 2001 by Gore Vidal. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House. United States Military Operations (pp. 22-41) reprinted by permission of the Federation of American Scientists. Essays History & Theory International Relations Political Science Politics & Government Nonfiction Iran Middle East
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Clear eyed look at the way things work around here. Gore Vidal saw it from the inside and communicates hard truths in an ultimately useful way.

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I suspect that if you have arrived at this book, you're of a certain frame of mind already. This book piles on even more reasons to be angry with our society than you already have.

I love the fact that, in his day, Gore Vidal was considered a flaming liberal. At this point in the 21st century, the people who call themselves Liberals would consider him an arch conservative. Gotta love the way this political atmosphere has practically flipped around 180° in the last 20 years.

Are you in the mood to be angry?

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Good book. Gore Vidal basically lambasts everything, romanticizes Timothy McVeigh, d predicts the next rants years of American foreign policy

Gore Vidal Shits on Everything

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Analysis of the motives behind the domestic terrorism behind Oklahoma City bombing and shows parallels the foriegn terrorism behind 9/11. It then points to the history of the military industrial complex, and how its perpetual armament since the 1950s led to destructive acts abroad as well as the consequences on domestic liberty, as what fuels the resentment that generates terrorism.

An interestimg essay on the Oaklahoma City boming.

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