1993, undated later edition, from South End Press
Stephen Rosskamm Shalom
Imperial Alibis: Rationalizing U.S. Intervention after the Cold War
Original price unknown, purchase price $14.95
Slightly worn paperback
C+
Following in the footsteps of Noam Chomsky (and with the same publisher), Shalom examines reasons that the U.S. government was and likely would be giving for going to war after the collapse of the USSR. I didn't feel like there was much new here (even the insults of Reagan are a bit stale), and certainly Shalom didn't predict how 9/11 would change everything, but the book does a nice job of pointing out hypocrisy, from Teddy Roosevelt's to Clinton's, but especially Nixon's and Kissinger's. (I never realized before how racist Kissinger was, especially against blacks.) Read it if you're really curious about the transitional time between the two Gulf Wars.
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