good book to give about the war in iraq?

[haaaylee]

i was thinking about blowback, but it's mostly pre-9/11 and my dad is convinced we need to be over there. i wanted something perhaps more specific to that area ... any ideas?

[LittleLightShining]

Maybe you should bundle Blowback and A Foreign Policy of Freedom.

[Xchange]

Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer

[RSLudlum]

Is he a veteran???

How bout some of Andrew Bacevich's books??
Here's an interview of Bacevich on Bill Moyers: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08152008/watch.html

And Bacevich speaking at the FFF “Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy & Civil Liberties” conference that RP, Lew Rockwell, Bruce Fein, et al. spoke at also: http://www.fff.org/classroom/YouTube/2008Bacevich.htm


I've only read The Limits of Power but am planning on reading more of his previous books. In 'Limits' he rails against all, 'conservative', liberals, repubs, and dems...Lays it all out trying to explain why America is in the pitiful position it is in right now and how foreign policy is a cause and effect of our economic ills, and vice versa.


The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism

The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II

The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War

American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of US Diplomacy

[ihsv]

I suggest Neoconned (http://www.amazon.com/Neo-Conned-Just-Principles-Condemnation-Iraq/dp/1932528067/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228956756&sr=8-1) and Neoconned Again (http://www.amazon.com/Neo-Conned-Again-Hypocrisy-Lawlessness-Rape/dp/1932528075/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228956756&sr=8-2).

[Bruno]

I suggest Neoconned (http://www.amazon.com/Neo-Conned-Just-Principles-Condemnation-Iraq/dp/1932528067/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228956756&sr=8-1) and Neoconned Again (http://www.amazon.com/Neo-Conned-Again-Hypocrisy-Lawlessness-Rape/dp/1932528075/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228956756&sr=8-2).

Thanks! I'm adding this to my X-Mas wish list. :)