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Chargement... The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris (édition 2010)par Peter Beinart
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Apparently the war to end all wars was really a misnomer. As if the slaughter of over 75m in the two world wars was not lesson enough, it was followed in quick succession by the Korean War, Vietnam, Gulf War and now the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. The author is trying to examine if this is hubris taken to it's extreme with the eagle soaring towards the sun and trying to reach it. Is the apogee of American Intellectualism defined by it's capacity to foment war (in foreign lands of course), thereby inviting the inevitable backlash? Apparently the war to end all wars was really a misnomer. As if the slaughter of over 75m in the two world wars was not lesson enough, it was followed in quick succession by the Korean War, Vietnam, Gulf War and now the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. The author is trying to examine if this is hubris taken to it's extreme with the eagle soaring towards the sun and trying to reach it. Is the apogee of American Intellectualism defined by it's capacity to foment war (in foreign lands of course), thereby inviting the inevitable backlash? aucune critique | ajouter une critique
A century of unwise American military adventures is probed in this perceptive study of foreign policy over-reach from Woodrow Wilson's "hubris of reason" to George W. Bush's "hubris of dominance." In each case, Beinart finds a dangerous confluence of misleading experience and untethered ideology. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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