George W. Bush has fundamentally changed America’s place in the world. In some neo-conservative circles the word ’empire’ is back in fashion. A great republic that broke away from the British empire is now supposed to be proud of its new imperial role.
This book explains how the neo-conservatives and the petro-military complex have hijacked US foreign policy.
It examines the price that Americans will have to pay for this new era of unlimited US military might. These include a never ending fear of terrorism; mushrooming defence spending; the erosion of civil liberties at home and the deaths abroad of tens of thousands of civilians and military combatants.