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Vidal, G. 2002. Perpetual war for Perpetual Peace. Clairview, UK. Rating: JJJJ About the Author: Gore Vidal is perhaps one of the best known novelists in the United States. He is also a playwright and a brilliant essayist. He was born in 1925 and served on an army vessel in the Second World War. Books by the same author:
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Review A challenge for all those who believe "terrorism" just comes out of the blue, Vidal's brilliant essays confirm him as one of the most articulate propaganda-breakers in the USA today. Vidal helps us to understand why people such as Timothy McVeigh might have decided to bomb the FBI building in Oklahoma city, or the ultimate reasons behind the 11th of September destruction of the World Trade Centre. Vidal is no supporter of terrorism, but he is lucid enough to see that our narrow definition of terrorism is dangerous and misleading. He attracts the reader's attention to the way in which the US government likes to terrorise (and in some instances eliminate) its own people, in order to keep increasing Pentagon funding. He also reminds us of the vast number of acts of aggression perpetrated in the name of the American people against so many other nations since World War II. Along the way, he explodes the myths of the "war against drugs" or the "war against terror", which are meaningless expressions used to allow further curtailing of civil liberties, at the expense of the US Constitution. |
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