American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780742555945)

This provocative, thoroughly researched book explores the covert aspects of U.S. foreign policy. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott marshals compelling evidence to expose the extensive growth of sanctioned but illicit violence in politics and state affairs, especially when related to America's long-standing involvement with the global drug traffic. Beginning with Thailand in the 1950s, Americans have become inured to the CIA's alliances with drug traffickers (and their bankers) to install and sustain right-wing governments. The pattern has repeated itself in Laos, Vietnam, Italy, Mexico, Thailand, Nigeria, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Panama, Honduras, Turkey, Pakistan, and now Afghanistan--to name only those countries dealt with in this book. Scott shows that the relationship of U.S. intelligence operators and agencies to the global drug traffic, and to other international criminal networks, deserves greater attention in the debate over the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. To date, America's government and policies have done more to foster than to curtail the drug trade. The so-called war on terror, and in particular the war in Afghanistan, constitutes only the latest chapter in this disturbing story.


Author: Peter Dale Scott
ISBN-10: 0742555941
ISBN-13: 9780742555945
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 11/16/2010
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.02w x 1.11d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/25/2010
Choice 10/01/2011