The Imperial Controversy: Communist Review Summer 2010
by Carol Turner
AS ITS TITLE SUGGESTS, Andrew Murray’s book addresses the attempts of western intellectuals to provide a justificatory gloss for US and British military aggression in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. It is neither an account of contemporary wars nor an exposition of the anti-war movement, in which the author has played a leading role, but a political and historical polemic directed at those who defend George Bush’s war on terror from the safety of their libraries and offices.
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