By Mike Lofgren
The New York Times bestselling exposé of what passes for company as traditional in Washington today
There used to be a time, no longer so very in the past, whilst completely rational humans ran the Republican occasion. So how did the get together of Lincoln develop into the get together of lunatics? that's what this booklet goals to reply to. worry no longer, the Dems are available in for his or her proportion of difficult talk— they're zombies, a celebration of the dwelling dead.
Mike Lofgren got here to Washington within the early eighties—those halcyon, post–Nixonian glory days—for what he imagined will be a brief stint on Capitol Hill. He has witnessed a variety of low issues in his twenty-eight years at the Hill—but none relatively so pitiful because the antics of the present crop of legislators whom we seem to have elected.
Based at the explosive article Lofgren wrote while he resigned in disgust after the debt ceiling concern, The social gathering Is Over is a humorous and impassioned exposé of every little thing that's unsuitable with Washington. Obama and his drained cohorts are not any angels yet they've got not anything at the Republicans, whose wily strategists are bankrupting the rustic one craven vote at a time. Be ready for a few fireworks.
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Moreover, after two years, the privatization process had become largely irreversible. The destruction of shuttered factories by looters and weather had left many of them beyond repair, and the necessary, skilled technicians had been dismissed. Beyond this, the new Iraqi government, constructed according to the neoliberal recipes of the occupation, was not equipped to construct or sustain the sorts of manufacturing enterprises that Brinkley was trying to revive. 11 The Baghdad tractor factory, like many other resuscitated plants, was operating at only partial capacity.
The answer lies in following the logic of using America’s military supremacy to impose economic solutions in the Middle East and elsewhere. S. 37 It is in this context that weapons of mass destruction became an issue, since any country that possessed WMDs would likely be able to resist such surgical attack. The PNAC made a particular point of saying that no adversary or potential adversary should be allowed to acquire WMDs, since these would effectively deter an invasion: Weak states operating small arsenals of crude ballistic missiles, armed with basic nuclear warheads or other weapons of mass destruction, will be in a strong position to deter the United States from using conventional force, no matter the technological or other advantages we may enjoy.
S. invasion of Iraq, designed to “open up” the Iraqi oil fields to foreign investment, was therefore entirely consistent 34 War Without End with the long legacy of military and economic intervention around the world. To use Smith’s phrase, the policy that led to the invasion of Iraq was designed “to impose a global capitalism dressed up as liberal democracy” on the Middle East. S. Goals for the New Iraqi Regime The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), the administrative apparatus installed by the United States to run Iraq after the overthrow of the Hussein regime, might have focused narrowly on the oil goals of the Cheney Energy Task Force.