Vol. 27 No. 20 dated 20 October 2005
Anatol Lieven We do not deserve these people
Anatol Lieven The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War by Andrew Bacevich, Oxford, 270 pp, £16.99
A key justification of the Bush administration's purported strategy of'democratising' the Middle East is the argument that democracies arepacific, and that Muslim democracies will therefore eventually settle downpeacefully under the benign hegemony of the US. Yet, as Andrew Bacevichpoints out in one of the most acute analyses of America to have appeared in recent years, the United States itself is in many ways a militaristic country, and becoming more so http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n20/liev01_.html