The matador's cape : America's reckless response to terror /

Main Author: Holmes, Stephen, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Did religious extremism cause 9/11?
  • Why military superiority breeds illusions
  • How the war was lost
  • Radicals trapped in the past
  • A self-inflicted wound
  • Searching for a new enemy after the Cold War
  • Humanitarianism with teeth
  • The war of the liberals
  • The neo-conservative intifada
  • Liberalism strangled by war
  • The unilateralist curse
  • Battling lawlessness with lawlessness
  • The infallibility trap
  • Conclusion.