Devils Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam - Robert Dreyfuss

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The first complete account of Americas most dangerous foreign policy miscalculation--60 years of support for Islamic fundamentalism--is the gripping story of Americas misguided efforts, stretching across decades, to dominate the strategically vital Middle East by courting and cultivating Islamic fundamentalism. n nThe most clear and engaging history of the deadly, historic partnership between Western powers and political Islam.--Salon.com n nDevils Game is the first comprehensive account of Americas misguided efforts, stretching across decades, to dominate the strategically vital Middle East by courting and cultivating Islamic fundamentalism. n nDrawing on extensive archival research and interviews with dozens of policy makers and CIA, Pentagon, and foreign service officials, Robert Dreyfuss follows the trail of American collusion from support for the Muslim Brotherhood in 1950s Egypt, to links with Khomeini and Afghani jihadists, to longstanding ties between radical Islamists and the leading banks of the West. The result is as tragic as it is paradoxical: originally deployed as pawns to foil nationalism and communism, extremist mullahs and ayatollahs now dominate the landscape, thundering against freedom of thought, science, womens rights, secularism--and their former patron. nChronicling a history of double-dealing, cynical exploitation, and humiliating embarrassment that continues to this day, Devils Game reveals a pattern that, far from furthering democracy or security, ensures a future of blunders and blowback.n

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Vânzător: Libris.ro
Brand: Robert Dreyfuss