JOsh reccommends The Folly of Empire

Sounds like an interesting book:

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: September 19, 2004 – September 25, 2004 Archives

And in our current moment, when TR and Wilson loom so large in our historical imagination and disfigured latter-day versions of them direct our nation’s affairs, it is an instructive examination of how the thirst for domination can masquerade as idealism, often in a toxic fashion fooling even itself.
With the US completely isolated and in a Mesopotamian snake pit, it’s not hard to argue that President Bush’s own special model of petulant unilateralism has been ineffective in securing American interests and security. But if you want to get more deeply into this — how lessons of the past were ignored, how vacuous idealism can slide into hubris and then disaster — this is the book.

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