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When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last defender of the American republic. In Dreaming War, Vidal continues this defense by confronting the Cheney-Bush junta head on in a series of devastating essays that demolish the lies American Empire lives by, unveiling a counter-history that traces the origins of America's current imperial ambitions to the experience of World War Two and the post-war Truman doctrine. And now, with the Cheney-Bush leading us into permanent war, Vidal asks whose interests are served by this doctrine of pre-emptive war? Was Afghanistan turned to rubble to avenge the 3,000 slaughtered on September 11? Or was "the unlovely Osama chosen on aesthetic grounds to be the frightening logo for our long contemplated invasion and conquest of Afghanistan?" After all he was abruptly replaced with Saddam Hussein once the Taliban were overthrown. And while "evidence" is now being invented to connect Saddam with 9/11, the current administration are not helped by "stories in the U.S. press about the vast oil wealth of Iraq which must- for the sake of the free world- be reassigned to U.S. consortiums."
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Lawrence Clower
reviewed Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta on January 21, 2016 Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
Gore Vidal, where have you been all my life? I'm a little late to the party I know. I feel like I have just discovered a new friend for life. I read Vidal's Lincoln a few years back, but I couldn't tell if I liked it because of Gore Vidal or because I love Honest Abe. This time there is no confusion, it's all Vidal.
This book is tremendous-as a devoted fan of Noam Chomsky and Michael Parenti I was more than ready for Vidal's worldview. So we agree politically about the history and trends of American politics that much is true. The real treat is Vidal's wit. Combining his extreme degree of erudition with his tart and smart writing style is a pure delight.
The topics covered in this book: American imperialism, the war economy, 20th and early 21st century history. There is almost nothing more enjoyable than when some critic takes a shot at Vidal and he gets into high dudgeon defensive mode. It doesn't get much better than this.
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