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Title: American War Machine Condition: New EAN: 9780742555952 ISBN: 9780742555952 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Paperback Release Date: 12/05/2014 Item Height: 227mm Item Length: 155mm Item Width: 22mm Item Weight: 553g Author: Peter Dale Scott Language: English Subtitle: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan ISBN-10: 074255595X Description: This provocative, thoroughly researched book explores the covert aspects of U.S. foreign policy. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott marshals compelling evidence to expose the extensive growth of sanctioned but illicit violence in politics and state affairs, especially when related to America's long-standing involvement with the global drug traffic. Beginning with Thailand in the 1950s, Americans have become inured to the CIA's alliances with drug traffickers (and their bankers) to install and sustain right-wing governments. The pattern has repeated itself in Laos, Vietnam, Italy, Mexico, Thailand, Nigeria, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Panama, Honduras, Turkey, Pakistan, and now Afghanistan—to name only those countries dealt with in this book. Scott shows that the relationship of U.S. intelligence operators and agencies to the global drug traffic, and to other international criminal networks, deserves greater attention in the debate over the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. To date, America's government and policies have done more to foster than to curtail the drug trade. The so-called war on terror, and in particular the war in Afghanistan, constitutes only the latest chapter in this disturbing story. Country/Region of Manufacture: US Genre: Law & Politics Book Series: War and Peace Library Release Year: 2014
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