Destroying World Order: U. S. Imperialism in the Middle East Before and after September 11th

For Boyle (international law, U. of Illinois-Champaign), the "War on Terror" is little more than a pretext for the expanded imperialist foreign policy of the United States, a policy characterized by a marked flouting of international law and a possibly inevitable slide into a Third World War. Beginning his narrative with a discussion of the U.S.- engineered coup d'état against the democratically elected Iranian leader Mohammed Mossadegh in 1959, he examines U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle East, largely through a legalistic lens honed over years of crafting legal petitions seeking to hold U.S. leaders accountable for their international crimes. He spends most of the work looking at the U.S. wars against Iraq, including the U.S-crafted sanctions blamed for over half a million Iraqi children dead over ten years, and concludes with a "guide to impeaching George W. Bush." Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR