World According to Washington

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"US intervention in Asia over the last 55 years has contributed to the deaths of over 10 million people, yet the developed world hears little of the price Asians have paid for the furtherance of American interests on their continent.... Patwant Singh describes in graphic detail not only the catastrophic trail of shattered lives and environmental destruction left behind by these actions, but also the degree to which Washington betrayed its liberationist ideals and cherished beliefs in pursuit of its imperial ambitions. Successive US administrations have conducted these wars, from Korea to Iraq, with a ferocity and overwhelming firepower never seen before. Patwant Singh draws on a wide range of international sources to put recent US actions into an historical perspective. He shows how little the new American imperialism has learned from the colonial past and argues forcefully for restoring the primacy of the UN and international law."--Book jacket.