What Uncle Sam Really Wants

What Uncle Sam Really Wants
by Noam Chomsky

"Highly recommended." --Booklist

Noam Chomsky is one of America's most popular speakers, electrifying standing-room-only audiences all over the country as he dissects US foreign policy with insights like these:

• Contrary to what virtually everyone--left or right--says, the United States achieved its major objectives in Indochina. Vietnam was demolished. There's no danger that successful development there will provide a model for other countries in the region.
  
  

• At exactly the moment it invaded Panama...the Bush administration announced new high-technology sales to China [and] plans...to lift a ban on loans to Iraq...Compared to Bush's buddies in Baghdad and Beijing, Noriega looked like Mother Teresa.
  
  

• Prospects are pretty dim for Eastern Europe. The West has a plan for it--they want to turn large parts of it into a new, easily exploitable part of the Third World.