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On February 27, 2007, during an interview with Amy Goodman, General Wesley Clark described a 2002 Pentagon conversation in which he was told that America was planning to invade Iraq. From the same source, he learned of a classified memorandum listing six other countries the United States intended to "take out" over the next five years. Most of us will never get to see this memo, but we know it exists. Now, editor Stephen Elliott, authors Jason Roberts, Eric Martin, and Andrew Altschul, and a team of twenty researchers have re-created this document for the present day. Where to Invade Next contains seven essays, 100 percent factual, laying out in stark detail how the arguments for invasion could be made. A biting look at the role of propaganda in foreign policy, this book outlines exactly how our leaders might make the case for war.… (altro)
Often McSweeney's titles suffer from assuming the reader is going to get the satire or irony; "Where to Invade Next" does, a bit, as it can all too easily be taken at face value (which is probably the point). In a library setting, it is hard for me to see the right patron picking it up and appreciating it in full.
That being said, this imagined version of a real government document is chilling, and all too convincing. This slim little book is a fascinating look into seven very insular countries, whose stated aims clearly do not fit with American government and culture, and an excellent example of how bias and slant can color any piece of information. ( )
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"About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, 'Sir, you've got to come in and talk to me a second.' I said, 'Well, you're too busy.' He said, 'No, no.' He says, 'We've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq.' This was on or about the twentieth of September... "So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing Afghanistan. I said, 'Are we still going to war with Iraq?' And he said, 'Oh, it's worse than that.' He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, 'I just got this down from upstairs' - meaning the Secretary of Defense's office - 'today.' And he said, 'This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years.'" -- General Wesley Clark, February 27, 2007
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Iran is working to develop tactical nuclear capabilities, abetting attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and building relationships with known terrorist groups.
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On February 27, 2007, during an interview with Amy Goodman, General Wesley Clark described a 2002 Pentagon conversation in which he was told that America was planning to invade Iraq. From the same source, he learned of a classified memorandum listing six other countries the United States intended to "take out" over the next five years. Most of us will never get to see this memo, but we know it exists. Now, editor Stephen Elliott, authors Jason Roberts, Eric Martin, and Andrew Altschul, and a team of twenty researchers have re-created this document for the present day. Where to Invade Next contains seven essays, 100 percent factual, laying out in stark detail how the arguments for invasion could be made. A biting look at the role of propaganda in foreign policy, this book outlines exactly how our leaders might make the case for war.
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That being said, this imagined version of a real government document is chilling, and all too convincing. This slim little book is a fascinating look into seven very insular countries, whose stated aims clearly do not fit with American government and culture, and an excellent example of how bias and slant can color any piece of information. (